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L>iiy  M  -.All  our  Krvicc, 
In  every  point  twice  done  and  then  done  double. 
Were  poor  and  single  business,  to  contend 
Against  those  honours  deep  and  broad  wherewith 
Your  majesty  loads  our  house :  for  those  of  old, 
And  the  late  dignities  heaped  up  to  them. 
We  rest  your  hermits. 
Dun   ^X' here's  the  thane  of  Cawdor? 
We  coursed  him  at  the  heels,  and  had  a  purpose 
To  be  his  purveyor :  but  he  rides  well ; ' 
And  his  great  love,sharp  as  his  spur,  hath  holp  him 
To  his  home  before  us.  rair  and  noble  hostess. 
We  arcyour  guest  to-night. 
Lady  NT  Your  servants  ever 

Have  theirs,  themselves  and  what  is  theirs,  in  compt. 
To  make  their  audit  at  your  highness'  pleasure. 
Still  to  return  your  own. 
Dun  .  Give  me  your  hand; 
Conduct  me  to  mine  host :  we  love  him  highly,. 
And  shall  continue  our  graces  towards  him. 
Exeunt   By  your  leave,  hosttss. 

SCENE  VII.  A  ROOM  IN  THE  CASTLE. 

Hautboys  and  torches.  Enter  a  Sewer,  and  divers  Scr^ 
vwtts  with  dishes  and  service,  and  pais  over  the  st^e. 
Then  enter  Macbeth. 

Macb.  HBi'  ■ '  JBljJP  't  w*f*  ^°"*  when 'tis  done,  then 

'twere  well 

It  were  done  quickly:  if  theassassination 

Could  trammel  up  the  consequence, 

and  catch 

With  his  surcease  success;  that  but  this 
blow 

Might  be  the  bei^all  and  the  end-all  here, 
But  here,  upon  this  bank  and  shoal  of  time, 
We'd  jump  the  life  to  come.  But  in  these  cases 
We  still  have  judgment  here ;  that  we  but  teach 
Bloody  instructions,  which,  being  taught,  return 
To  plague  the  inventor :  this  even-handed  justice 
Commends  the  ingredients  of  our  poisoned  chalice 
To  our  own  lips.  He's  here  in  double  trust; 
First,  as  I  am  his  kinsman  and  his  subject. 
Strong  both  against  the  deed;  then,  as  his  host. 
Who  should  against  his  murderer  shut  the  door. 
Not  bear  the  knife  myself.  Besides,  this  Duncan 
Hath  borne  his  faculties  so  meek,  hath  been 
So  clear  in  his  great  ofTice,  that  his  virtues 
Will  plead  like  angels.trumpet'tongued,  against 
The  deep  damnation  of  his  taking-ofF; 
And  pity,  like  a  naked  new-born  babe. 
Striding  the  blast,  or  heaven's  cherubim, horsed 
Upon  the  sightless  couriers  of  the  air. 
Shall  blow  tne  horrid  deed  in  every  eye. 
That  tears  shall  drown  the  wind.  I  have  no  spur 
To  prick  the  sides  of  my  intent,  but  onlv 
Vaulting  ambition,  which  o'erleaps  itself 
Enter  Lady  And  falls  on  the  other... 
Macbeth       How  now !  what  ne ws  ? 

Lady  M .  He  has  almost  supped :  why  have  you  left  the 

chamber? 

MacbHath  he  asked  forme? 


BS2 


LadyM.  Know  you  not  he  has?  M.icbeth: 

Macb.  We  wil  I  proceed  no  further  m  Ail  btltincttt        Act  1.  be,  vu. 

{4c  hath  honov  red  me  of  late ;  and  I  have  bought 

Golden  opinions  from  all  sorts  of  people. 

Which  would  »»e  worn  now  in  their  newest  glost. 

Not  cast  aside  so  soon. 

Lady  M.  Was  the  hope  drunk 

Wherein  you  dressed  yourself  ?  Jiath  it  slept  since  ? 

And  wakes  it  now,  to  look  so  green  and  pale 

At  what  it  did  so  freely  ?  From  this  time 

Such  I  account  thy  love.  Art  thou  afeard 

To  be  the  same  in  thine  own  act  and  valour 

As  thou  art  in  desire  ?  Wouldst  thou  have  that 

Which  thou  esteem'st  the  omamf  nt  of  life. 

And  live  a  coward  in  thine  own  esteem. 

Letting  "  I  dare  not"  wait  upon  "  I  would," 

Like  the  poor  cat  i'the  adage  ? 

Macb    Prithee,  peace: 

I  dare  do  all  that  may  become  a  man; 

\(rho  dares  do  more  is  none. 

Lady  M.  What  beast  was' t,  then. 

That  made  you  break  this  enterprise  to  me? 

When  you  durst  do  it,  then  you  were  a  man; 

And,  to  be  more  than  what  you  were,  you  would 

Be  so  much  more  the  man.  Nor  time  nor  place 

Did  then  adhere,  and  yet  vou  would  make  both : 

They  have  made  themselves,  and  that  their  fitness  now 

Does  unmake  you.  I  have  given  suck,  and  know 

How  tender'tis  to  love  the  babe  that  milks  me : 

I  would,  while  it  was  smiling  in  my  face. 

Have  plucked  my  nipple  from  his  boneless  gums. 

And  dashed  the  brains  out,  had  I  so  sworn  as  yott 

Have  done  to  this. 

Macb.  Ifwe  should  fail? 

Lady  M.  We  fail! 

But  screw  your  courage  to  the  sticking/place. 

And  we'll  not  fail.  When  Duncan  is  asleep... 

Whereto  the  rather  shall  his  day's  hard  journey 

Soundly  in  vite  him ...  his  two  chamberlains 

Will  I  with  wine  and  wassail  so  convince 

That  memory,  the  warder  of  the  brain. 

Shall  be  a  fume,  and  the  receipt  of  reason 

A  limbeck  only :  when  in  swinish  sleep 

Their  drenched  natures  lie  as  in  a  death, 

VC^hat  cannot  you  and  I  perform  upon 

The  unguarded  Duncan?  what  not  put  upon 

His  spongy  officers,  who  shall  bear  the  guilt 

Of  our  great  quell? 

Macb  Bring  forth  men-children  only: 

For  thy  undaunted  mettle  should  compose 

Nothing  but  males.  Will  it  not  be  received. 

When  we  have  marked  with  blood  those  sleepy  two 

Of  his  own  chamber  and  used  their  very  daggers. 

That  they  have  done't  ? 

Lady  M  Who  dares  receive  it  other. 

As  we  shall  make  our  griefs  and  clamour  roar 

Upon  his  death? 

Macb  I  am  settled,and  bettd  up 

Each  corporal  agent  to  this  terrible  feat. 

Away, and  mock  the  time  with  fairest  show: 

False  face  must  hide  what  the  false  heart  doth  know.        Bjuunt 


Reduced  Facsimile  of  the  Trial  Page  for  the  Projected  Kelmscott  Edi- 
tion of  The  Tragedies,  Histories,  &  Comedies  of  William  Shakespeare. 
See  number  254. 


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Note 

This  small  collection  contains  many  desirable  vol- 
umes, some  of  which  have  uncommon  interest  by 
association  with  the  authors,  while  a  few  are  so  ex- 
tremely rare  as  to  render  their  sale  at  auction  an  oc- 
currence of  some  consequence  in  the  old-book  world. 
Several  of  the  letters  are  of  considerable  importance. 

There  are  two  books  in  the  collection  which  the 
present  owner  confesses  never  to  have  read;  and  they 
are  here  in  spite  of  his  rule,  to  admit  no  book  un- 
less he  could  read  it.  These  are  the  old  Latin  tomes 
of  Rodoricus  and  St.  Chrysostom.  The  excuse  for 
their  presence  is  the  beauty  of  their  typography ;  the 
clear  strong  black  letters,  surrounded  by  wide  mar- 
gins, have  stood,  for  more  than  four  centuries,  as  ex- 
amples of  good  printing. 

Of  the  old  English  books,  the  copy  of  Milton's 
"Paradise  Lost,"  1667,  in  the  original  sheep,  is  un- 
questionably the  most  important;  yet  the  copy  of 
Chapman's  Homer  is,  on  account  of  the  associations 
clustered  about  it,  of  the  highest  interest  of  the  older 
books  in  the  collection ;  it  belonged  to  Coleridge, 
and  has  many  critical  notes,  in  his  handwriting,  on 
the  verso  of  the  leaf  of  dedication  and  on  the  mar- 
gins of  several  pages;  it  has,  too,  his  autograph  sig- 
nature in  three  places.  Inserted  is  a  long  letter  — 
one  of  the  most  interesting  literary  letters  in  exis- 
tence—  which  was  sent  with  this  book  to  Miss 
Hutchinson,  the  sister  of  Wordsworth's  wife.     On 

ix 


Note 

the  death  of  Miss  Hutchinson  the  book  passed  into 
the  possession  of  Wordsworth.  Another  old  book, 
made  interesting  by  distinguished  association,  is 
Cartwright's  "Comedies,"  1651,  which  once  be- 
longed to  Thomas  Warton  and  has  his  critical 
manuscript  comments  written  on  the  margins  of 
many  pages.  This  same  copy  later  belonged  to 
James  Bindley,  the  noted  collector  of  a  century  ago, 
and  bears  his  autograph.  It  has,  inserted,  an  auto- 
graph letter  by  Thomas  Park,  another  famous  col- 
lector, who  writes  of  the  differences  he  has  found  in 
various  copies  of  this  rare  old  book.  A  volume  of 
no  value,  except  for  association,  is  "Legatus  Opus 
Caroli  Paschalii,"  1598,  with  the  autograph  signa- 
ture of  John  Donne  on  the  title-page. 

To  name  the  many  first  editions  of  rare  old  books 
would  be  to  repeat  too  large  a  portion  of  the  cata- 
logue. Among  the  worthiest  of  mention  are  the 
rollicking  cavalier  "Songs"  of  Brome;  Corbet's 
"Certain  Elegant  Poems";  and  Crashaw's  "Steps 
to  the  Temple,"  in  well  worn  but  original  binding. 
Drayton  is  here  in  the  little  edition  of  1605,  and  also 
in  the  larger  edition  of  161 9.  There  are  several 
volumes  of  Dry  den,  including  his  first  play,  "The 
Wild  Gallant,"  and  his  most  important  poem,  "The 
Hind  and  the  Panther,"  1687.  The  big  thin  vol- 
ume of  the  "Poems"  of  Andrew  Marvell,  the  friend 
of  Milton,  is  a  fine  copy  of  this  uncommon  book. 
Katherine  Philips,  "the  matchless  Orinda,"  is  repre- 
sented by  the  earliest  but  unauthorized  edition  of  her 
"Poems,"  1664,  and  also  by  the  sumptuous  volume 
of  1667  with  her  portrait  by  Faithorne.     Other  old 


Note 

rarities  are  the  "Poems"  of  Waller  and  Shirley,  of 
Donne  and  Hall,  of  Randolph  and  Carew  —  all  first 
editions  and  all  fine  copies. 

The  most  important  book  in  this  collection,  with 
an  eighteenth-century  date,  is  the  little  "Deserted 
Village"  of  1770,  which  the  best  opinion  now  places 
earlier  than  the  first  4to  of  the  same  year.  Some  of 
the  reasons  for  this  recognition  of  the  importance  of 
these  small  8vos  are  stated  in  a  long  note,  written 
specially  for  this  catalogue,  by  Mr.  Luther  S.  Living- 
ston, who  is  the  discoverer  of  three  varieties,  of 
which  the  copy  here  catalogued  is  the  only  one  of 
its  kind  known  to  exist,  and  the  first  of  the  8vos  to 
be  sold  at  auction  in  this  country.  Mr.  Livingston's 
full  study  of  these  earliest  issues  of  Goldsmith's  mas- 
terpiece appeared  in  The  Bookman  of  last  February. 
There  is  an  uncut  copy  of  Dr.  Johnson's  "  Plan  of  a 
Dictionary,"  1747;  and  the  big  "Dictionary"  itself 
(almost  a  common  book  in  ordinary  cut  condition) 
is  one  of  the  only  three  copies  that  are  now  known  to 
exist  in  the  original  boards,  uncut.  There  are  fine 
copies  of  "Tom  Jones"  and  "Amelia,"  as  well  as 
other  books  of  Fielding;  and  Swift  is  represented  by 
"The  Tale  of  a  Tub,"  "Gulliver's  Travels,"  and  by 
"Genteel  and  Ingenious  Conversation"  on  large 
paper  —  all  first  editions.  Mention  should  also  be 
made  of  a  beautiful  example  of  binding  by  Roger 
Payne,  which  is  accompanied  by  his  curious  auto- 
graph bill  for  the  work. 

Several  of  the  nineteenth-century  books  unite  im- 
portance as  early  issues  of  great  rarity  with  unusual 
personal  associations.     Such,  for  instance,  is  the  proof 

xi 


Note 

copy  of  Browning's  "Dramatis  Personae"  with  a 
manuscript  title  in  the  author's  handwriting,  under- 
neath which  is  written  "To  be  Published  May  21st." 
The  text  has  many  alterations  in  his  autograph. 
Another  Browning  book,  of  the  same  order,  is  a 
proof  copy  of  "The  Ring  and  the  Book,"  with 
hundreds  of  manuscript  additions  and  corrections 
in  the  author's  handwriting.  With  this  book  is 
an  unpublished  autograph  letter  by  Browning,  in 
which  he  makes  arrangements  connected  with 
the  publication  of  the  work.  The  "Pauline," 
1833,  Browning's  first  book,  is,  like  most  first 
books  of  famous  authors,  extremely  rare.  This 
same  copy  was  sold  at  auction  in  London  last  De- 
cember, and  was  then  secured  by  the  present  owner. 
There  are  also  Browning's  privately  printed  poems: 
"Cleon,"  "The  Statue  and  the  Bust,"  "Gold  Hair," 
and  "Helen's  Tower" — all  in  fine  condition.  Two 
of  the  other  Browning  books  are  presentation  copies 
with  the  author's  autograph  inscription  in  each. 

Mrs.  Browning's  first  book,  "The  Battle  of  Mara- 
thon," 1820,  is  even  rarer  than  "Pauline";  and  the 
copy  here  is  of  particular  interest,  for  it  belonged 
to  the  young  poet's  uncle,  S.  M.  Barrett,  and  bears 
his  book-plate.  Of  the  fifty  copies,  originally  printed 
for  presentation  purposes — none  were  made  for  sale 
—  only  six  are  now  known  to  exist.  The  exquisitely 
bound  copy  of  the  rare  "Sonnets"  formerly  belonged 
to  Charles  Kingsley,  to  whom  it  was  presented  by 
Miss  Mitford,  who  had  charge  of  the  printing  of  the 
book  for  Mrs.  Browning.  No  copy  of  this  book 
has  ever  before  been  sold  at  auction,  either  in  Eng- 

xii 


Note 

land  or  in  this  country.  There  are  four  other  presen- 
tation copies  of  books  by  Mrs.  Browning,  each  with 
her  autograph  inscription ;  and  there  is  also  her  "  Last 
Poems,"  a  posthumous  publication,  with  the  auto- 
graph inscription  of  Robert  Browning,  presenting  it 
to  Miss  Isa  Blagden,  the  intimate  friend  of  both 
poets. 

Of  Keats,  there  is  a  shabby  copy  of  his. first  book, 
the  "Poems,"  1817;  but  condition,  in  this  instance, 
is  secondary,  for  the  book  is  a  presentation  copy 
with  the  poet's  autograph  inscription  on  the  title- 
page.  Here  also  are  "Endymion,"  18 18,  and 
"Lamia,"  18 20;  both  uncommonly  fine  copies,  and 
both  in  the  original  boards,  uncut.  Besides  a  set  of 
the  beautiful  books  printed  at  the  Kelmscott  Press, 
there  is  the  trial  page  of  the  projected  Kelmscott  folio 
Shakespeare.  Only  this  one  page  was  ever  set,  and 
only  this  one  copy  of  it  exists.  Shelley's  "Adonais" 
is  here  in  the  rare  first  edition,  1821,  uncut  and 
with  the  original  covers;  also  the  second  edition, 
1829,  a  presentation  copy  from  Arthur  Hallam  to 
Samuel  Rogers.  Two  extremely  rare  books  of  Ten- 
nyson are  "The  Falcon,"  1879,  and  "The  Promise 
of  May,"  1882;  both  uncut,  and  both  in  the  original 
paper  covers.  No  copy  of  the  latter  has  ever  before 
been  sold  at  auction. 

When  John  Brown  "of  Osawatomie"  was  in 
chains  in  a  Virginia  jail  awaiting  the  day  of  his  ex- 
ecution, he  wrote  a  brave  stirring  letter,  characteris- 
tic of  the  man.  That  letter  is  the  first  in  the  list. 
The  first  literary  letter  is  one  by  Mrs.  Browning,  in 

xiii 


Note 

which  she  speaks  with  enthusiasm  of  Tennyson, 
whom,  when  the  letter  was  written,  she  had  not 
yet  seen.  There  are  three  letters  by  Robert  Brown- 
ing. The  letter  by  Cowper  is  of  exceptional  inter- 
est; it  treats  almost  entirely  of  "The  Task,"  which 
at  the  time  was  yet  unpublished.  One  of  the  Emer- 
son letters  (there  are  seven  in  all)  gives  an  important 
appreciation  of  Wordsworth.  Of  Hawthorne,  there 
is  one  expressing  an  opinion  of  his  own  romances. 
Several  by  Holmes  (there  are  twelve  in  all)  are  in 
relation  to- his  own  books.  Two  by  Washington 
Irving  are  about  his  own  writings,  and  a  third  tells 
an  amusing  Sleepy  Hollow  story  of  contemporary 
goblins.  Of  Keats  there  is  the  larger  part  of  a  very 
long  letter;  also  letters  to  Keats  from  his  friends 
Haydon  and  Reynolds.  The  only  one  by  Longfellow 
relates  entertainingly  the  circumstances  of  "the  first 
speech  I  ever  made  in  my  life."  One  of  the  three 
by  Lowell  has  unusual  interest,  for  it  is  written  in 
rhyme.  The  three  by  Shelley,  excepting  the  Cole- 
ridge letter  already  referred  to,  are  unquestionably  the 
most  important  of  all  the  literary  letters  in  the  col- 
lection. In  them,  the  poet  refers  to  several  of  his 
writings  by  name.  Of  Stedman,  there  are  two  let- 
ters, and  an  autograph  verse  from  "Pan  in  Wall 
Street."  Whittier  is  represented  by  eight  letters, 
three  of  which  refer  to  his  own  books.  At  the  end 
of  the  list  are  two  long  letters  by  Wordsworth,  one 
of  which,  written  in  1798,  is  of  high  literary  in- 
terest. 

Besides  the  letters,  there  are  the  original  transfer 
of  copyright,   signed   by   Addison,    of  a   volume  of- 

xiv 


Note 

The  Spectator;  the  fragment  of  a  Bryant  manuscript ; 
the  complete  holograph  manuscript  of  Irving's  "The 
Knight  of  Malta,"  signed  "Geoffrey  Crayon";  and, 
most  important  of  all,  the  complete  holograph 
manuscript  of  Keats's  poem,  "To  Charles  Cowden 
Clark." 

Attention  is  called  to  the  Supplement,  which  con- 
tains a  list  of  books,  etc.,  which  were  acquired  too 
late  for  insertion  in  Mr.  Arnold's  Catalogue  of 
American  First  Editions. 


XV 


"Here  are  big  books,  little  books,  books  new 
and  books  old, 
All  awaiting  the  morrow  their  turn  to  be  sold." 


ARNOLD  COLLECTION 

Part  I     Books 
1 

Andrews,  William  Loring.  A  Short  Historical  Sketch 
of  the  Art  of  Bookbinding.  With  a  Description  of  the 
Prominent  Styles  by  William  Matthews.  6  full  page  illustrations. 
Square  i2mo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut.  New  York,  1895. 

■^        "  First  Edition.     One  of  50  Large  Paper  copies  printed  on  vellum 

paper. 

2 

Andrews,  William  Loring.    A  Historical  Sketch  of  the 

Art  of  Bookbinding.     With  a  Description  of  the  Prominent 

^m  Styles  by  William  Matthews.     6  full  page  illustrations.     Square 

24mo,  original  paper  covers.  [New  York,]  Published  for  the 

benefit  of  the  Art  Loan  Exhibition  held  April,  1895. 

Andrews,   William   Loring.    Fragments   of  American 

History.     Illustrated  Solely  by  the  Works  of  Those  of  oiu-  own 

Engravers  who  Flourished  in  the  XVIIIth  Century.     18  illustra- 

^J  vT       tions,  4  of  which  are  in  colors.     i2mo,  original  half  brown  calf, 

gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut.  Privately  printed  for 

William  Loring  Andrews,  New  York,  1898. 

One  of  30  copies  on  Imperial  Japan  paper. 


2/. 


4 
Andrews,  William  Loring.     Sextodecimos  et  Infra.     Il- 
lustrated.     1 2mo,  original  vellum  paper  covers,  uncut. 

New  York,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1899. 
Number  66  of  140  copies  on  English  hand-made  plate-paper. 

(0 


Arnold  Collection  of  Books  and  Letters 

5 
Andrews,  William  Loring.    A  Trio  of  Eighteenth  Cen- 
tury French  Engravers  of  Portraits  in  Miniature.    II- 

f  lustrated.     8vo,  original  vellum  paper  covers,  uncut. 

New  York,  William  Loring  Andrews,  1899. 

One  of  161  copies  on  Imperial  Japan  paper. 

6 
Andrews,  William  Loring.     James  Lyne's  Survey,  or,  as 
it  is  more  commonly  known.  The  Bradford  Map.    An  Ap- 
-2-  •  pendix  to  an  Account  of  the  same  Compiled  in  1 893  by  William 

Loring  Andrews.     Illustrated.     8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

New  York,  Dodd,  Mead,  &  Company,  1900. 

One  of  32  copies  on  Imperial  Japan  paper. 

7 
Andrews,  William  Loring.    James  Lyne's  Survey,  etc. 
An  Appendix  to  an  Account  of  the  same,  etc.     8vo,  original 
cloth,  uncut.  New  York,  Dodd,  Mead,  &  Company,  1900. 

One  of  170  copies  on  Holland  paper. 

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Andrews,  William  Loring.     Gossip  About  Book  CoUect- 
/L  •  ing.     Illustrated.     2  volumes,   8vo,  original  illuminated    paper 

covers,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Published  by  Dodd,  Mead,  &  Company,  1900. 

One  of  32  copies  on  Imperial  Japan  paper. 

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*  Andrews,  William  Loring.     Gossip  About  Book  Collect- 

"^*  ing.     Illustrated.     2   volumes,   8vo,   original  illuminated  paper 

covers,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Published  by  Dodd,  Mead,  &  Company,  1900. 

One  of  125  copies  on  Holland  paper. 

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Bacon,  Francis.     The  Essaies  of  Francis  Bacon  Knight, 

the  King's  Soliciter  General.    Small  8vo,  old  calf,  marbled  edges. 
Imprinted  at  London  by  John  Beale,  1612. 

The  first  three  editions  of  Bacon's  Essays  each  contain  but  10 
essays;  this,  the  fourth  edition,  contains  38  essays,  of  which  29  ap- 
pear here  for  the  first  time,  which  renders  this  essentially  a  first  edi- 
tion. 

The  present  is  a  desirable  copy,  although  several  headlines  are  cut 
into.     Rare. 

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Bibliotheca  Anglo-Poetica :  or,  a  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  a 
Rare  and  Rich  Collection  of  Early  English  Poetry.  Illustrated 
by  Occasional  Extracts  and  Remarks,  Critical  and  Biographical. 
Frontispiece,  vignette  portraits,  etc.  8vo,  old  morocco,  gilt  top, 
other  edges  uncut.    London,  Printed  by  Thomas  Davidson,  181 5. 


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Blades,  William.     The  Life  and  Typography  of  William 

Caxton,  England's  First  Printer.     With  Evidence  of  his 

^  Typographical  Connection  with  Colard  Mansion,  the  Printer  at 

Bruges.     Compiled  from   Original  Sources  by  William  Blades. 

Illustrated.     2  volumes,  4to,  original  half  morocco,  uncut. 

Published  by  Joseph  Lily,  London,  1861. 

First  Edition.  Fine  copy.  Inserted  is  the  original  prospectus  of 
the  book,  a  pamphlet  of  6  leaves,  and  an  autograph  letter  dated 
18  Oct.  1882,  signed  William  Blades,  in  reference  to  the  different 
editions  of  this  work. 

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Blades,  William.     The  Pentateuch  of  Printing,  with  a 

Chapter  on  Judges.     With  a  Memoir  of  the  Author,  and  List 

/  ^^         of  his  Works,  by  Talbot  B.  Reed.    Illustrated.    4to,  original  cloth, 

gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  1891. 

First  Edition. 

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Bollioud-Mermet,  Louis.    Crazy  Book-Collecting  or  Bib- 
3^  liomania.     Showing  the  great  folly  of  collecting  rare  and  curi- 

ous books,  first  editions,  unique  and  large  paper  copies,  in  costly 
bindings,  etc.     i2mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  1894. 

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Book-Lovers'  Almanac  for  1894.     With  etchings  by  Robida, 
y  •  and  other  illustrations.     12  mo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut. 

New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  1894. 
This  b  one  of  150  copies  on  Japan  paper. 


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paper  covers,  uncut.  New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  1895. 

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Book-Lovers'  Almanac  for  1896.     Illustrated.     i2mo,  original 
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paper  covers,  uncut.  New  York,  Duprat  &  Co.,  1897. 

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Bradstreet,  Mrs.  Anne.    The  Poems  of  Mrs.  Anne  Brad- 

/^m  street.    (161 2-1672.)    Together  with  her  Prose  Remains.    With 

an  Introduction  by  Charles  Eliot  Norton.     1 2  illustrations.    1 2mo, 

original  boards,  uncut.  The  Duodecimos,  1897. 

132  copies  on  hand-made  paper  were  printed,  of  which  this  is 
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Braithwaite,  Richard.    The  Arcadian  Princesse ;  or,  The 
Triumph    of  Justice.      By   Ri   Brathwait   Esq.      Engraved 
X^'  frontispiece  by  Marshall.     Small  8vo,  original  calf,  red  edges. 

London,  Printed  by 
Th.  Harper  for  Robert  Bostocke,  1635. 

First  Edition.  Very  fine  copy.  Opposite  the  frontispiece  is  the 
leaf  of  verse  "Upon  the  Frontispiece,"  wanting  in  most  copies  of 
this  scarce  book. 

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Brome,  Alexander.  Songs  and  Other  Poems.  By  Alex. 
Brome,  Gent.  Brilliant  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by 
Hertochs.  Small  8vo,  brown  straight- grain  morocco,  blind  tooled, 
gilt  edges,  by  Hering.      London,  Printed  for  Henry  Brome,  1661. 

First  Edition.  Very  scarce.  This  copy  contains  the  four  unpaged 
leaves  between  pages  32  and  33  and  the  duplicate  pages  127  to  142. 

Bering's  ticket  is  on  the  upper  left-hand  corner  of  the  first  fly- 
leaf;  the  binding  is  a  beautiful  example  of  his  work. 


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Brooke,  Lord.     Certaine  Learned  and  Elegant  Workes  of 

of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Fvlke  Lord  Brooke,  Written  in  his  Youth, 

and  familiar  Exercise  with  Sir  Philip  Sidney.     Tall  4to,  original 

/7  calf.  London,  Printed  by  E.  P.  for  Henry  Seyle,  1633. 

Fine  large  copy  of  the  First  Edition.     The  pagination  begins  with 
page  23,  as  in  all  copies. 

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Brooke,  Stopford.    English  Literature.    4to,  original  boards, 
paper  back,  uncut.  London,  Macmillan  &  Co.,  1876. 

Large  Paper  copy  of  the  First  Edition. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.  The  Battle  of  Mara- 
thon. A  Poem.  By  E.  B.  Barrett.  8vo,  original  calf,  marbled 
edges.  London,  Printed  for  W.  Lindsell,  1820. 

-X-s  «^^    -—  First   Edition   of    Mrs.    Browning's    first   book.       A   large   copy 

(8  5-16x5  I- 16  inches)  of  this  extremely  rare  volume,  in  very  fine 
condition.  The  father  of  the  young  Poet  had  50  copies  printed, 
and  of  these,  after  most  diligent  searching  for  years,  only  6  are 
now  known  to  exist.  This  copy  was  presented  by  the  young  author 
to  her  uncle,  S.  M.  Barrett,  and  has  his  book-plate. 
Facsimile  of  title-page  on  verso  of  this  leaf. 

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THE 


BATTLE  OF  MARATHON. 


A  POEM. 


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What  care  employs  me  now,  my  vows  I  pay 
To  the  sweet  Muses,  teachers  of  my  yoatb !" 

Akbnsidk. 

*'  Ancient  of  days !    Angust  Athena !    W^here, 
Where  are  thy  men  of  might,  thy  grand  in  soul? 
Gone*^limmering  through  the  dream  of  things  that  were* 
First  in  the  race  Uiat  led  to  glory's  goal, 
They  won,  and  past  away."  BvROif* 


BY  E.  B.  BARRETT. 


ILonlron: 


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8TREET,    CAVENDISH-SQUARE. 

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Browning,   Elizabeth   Barrett.     An   Essay   on    Mind, 
with  Other  Poems.     1 2mo,  original  boards,  paper  label,  uncut. 

London,  James  Duncan,  1826. 
First  Edition.     An  uncommonly  fine  copy  of  this  scarce  book. 


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Browning,   Elizabeth   Barrett.      An   Essay   on   Mind, 

with  Other  Poems.  8vo.  London,  James  Duncan,  1826.  Pro- 
metheus Bound.  i2mo.  London,  Printed  and  published  by 
A.  J.  Valpy,  M.  A.,  1833.  The  two  books  bound  together  in 
one  volmne,  half  morocco,  marbled  edges. 

First  Edition.  Presentation  copies,  with  autograph  inscription  on 
title-page  of  "An  Essay  on  Mind":  ^^ From  the  author,  1842." 
and  autograph  signature  on  title-page  of  "Prometheus  Bound": 
"E.  B.  Barrett." 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter  of  3  very  small  pages  which  was 
sent  to  Mr.  Westwood  with  this  copy  of  "An  Essay  on  Mind." 
The  letter  is  here  quoted  in  full : 

"Miss  Barrett — inferring  Mr.  Westwood  from  the  handwriting — 
begs  his  acceptance  of  the  unworthy  little  book  he  does  her  the 
honor  of  desiring  to  see. 

It  is  more  unworthy  than  he  could  have  expected  when  he  ex- 
pressed that  desire  —  having  been  written  in  very  early  youth  when 
the  mind  was  scarcely  free  in  any  measure  from  trammels  &  Popes, 
&,  what  is  worse,  when  flippancy  of  language  was  too  apt  to  accom- 
pany immaturity  of  opinion.  The  miscellaneous  verses  are,  still 
more  than  the  chief  poem,  *  childish  things '  in  a  strict  literal  sense 
—  &  the  whole  volume  is  of  little  interest  even  to  its  writer  except 
for  personal  reasons — except  for  the  traces  of  dear  affections,  since 
rudely  wounded,  and  of  that  love  of  poetry,  which  began  with  her 
sooner  than  so  soon,  &  must  last  as  long  as  life  does  without  being 
subject  to  the  changes  of  life.  Little  more  therefore  can  remain  for 
such  a  volume  than  to  be  humble  &  shrink  from  circulation.  Yet 
Mr.  Westwood's  kind  words  win  it  to  his  hands.  Will  he  receive 
at  the  same  moment  the  expression  of  touched  &  gratified  feelings 
with  which  Miss  Barrett  read  what  he  wrote  on  the  subject  of  her 
later  volumes,  still  very  imperfect  altho'  more  mature  &  true  to  the 
truth  within. — ?  —  Indeed  she  is  thankful  for  what  he  said  so 
kindly  in  his  note  to  her. 

50  Wimpole  street 

Jany,  7'^  1842." 

Book-plate  of  Thomas  Westwood. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.    Poems.    By  Elizabeth  Bar- 
rett Barrett.     2  volumes  in  i.    Small  8vo,  half  morocco,  mar- 
bled edges.  London,  Edward  Moxon,  1844. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  on 
fly-leaf: 

"To  M>-  Westwood 

with  the  author's  regards. 

August,  1844." 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter  of  4  pages,  which  is  here  printed  in 
full  for  the  first  time : 

"50  Wimpole  Street 

August  22.  1844. 

Thursday. 

My  dear  M""  Westwood,  you  will  start  back  at  this  tall,  white 
ghost  of  my  usual  note  paper! — but  take  courage  I  do  not  pre- 
meditate the  overwhelming  you  with  a  third  volume  —  only  my 
usual  sheets  are  out  of  my  reach, —  &  I  snatch  this  nearest  one,  to 
thank  you  for  your  welcome  letter,  so  kind  in  its  candour.  /,  angry 
that  you  sh^  prefer  my  Seraphim?  Angry?  No,  indeed,  INDEED. 
I  am  grateful  for  the  Seraphim  —  and  not  exacting  for  the  Drama 
—  &  all  this  the  more,  because  of  a  recent  obstinate  persua- 
sion that  the  Drama  will  have  a  majority  of  friends  in  the  end, 
&  perhaps  deserve  to  have  them.  Nay,  why  sh^^  I  Xhrow  perhapses 
over  my  own  impressions,  &  be  insincere  to  you  who  have  honored 
me  by  being  sincere?  Why  sh^  I  dissemble  my  own  belief  that  the 
Drama  is  worth  two  or  three  Seraphims, — iny  own  belief,  you 
know,  which  is  worth  nothing — writers  knowing  themselves  so 
superficially,  and  having  such  a  natural  leaning  to  their  last  work. 
Still,  I  may  say  honestly  to  you,  that  I  have  a  far  more  modest 
value  for  the  Seraphim  than  your  kindness  suggests, —  &  that 
I  have  seemed  to  myself  to  have  a  clear  insight  into  the  fact, 
that  that  poem  was  only  borne  up  by  the  minor  poems  published 
with  it,  from  immediate  destruction.  There  is  a  want  of  unity  in  it, 
which  vexes  me  to  think  of, —  &  the  other  faults  magnify  them- 
selves day  by  day,  more  &  more,  in  my  eyes.  Therefore  it  is  not 
that  I  care  more  for  the  Drama,  but  that  I  care  less  for  the  Sera- 
phim. Both  poems  fell  short  of  my  aspiration  &  desire, — but  the 
Drama  seems  to  me  fuller,  freer,  &  stronger, —  &  worth  the  other 
three  times  over.  If  it  has  anything  '  new,'  I  think  it  must  be  some- 
thing new  into  which  I  have  lived,  for  certainly  I  wrote  it  sincerely 
&  from  an  inner  impulse.  In  fact,  I  never  wrote  any  poem  with  so 
much  sense  of  pleasure  in  the  composition,  or  so  rapidly,  with  con- 
tinuous flow — from  fifty  to  a  hundred  lines  a  day,  &  quite  in  a  glow 
of  pleasure  &  impulse  all  through.  Still,  you  have  not  been  used 
to  see  me  in  blank  verse,  &  there  may  be  something  in  that.  That 
the  poem  is  full  of  faults  &  inefficiencies  I  do  not  in  the  least  doubt. 
I  have  vibrated  between  exaltations  and  despondencies,  in  the  cor- 

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recting  &  printing  of  it, —  though  the  composition  went  smoothly 
to  an  end  —  and  I  am  prepared  to  receive  the  bastinado  to  the  critical 
degree,  I  do  assure  you.  The  few  opinions  I  have  yet  had,  are  all 
to  the  effect  that  my  advance  on  the  former  publication  is  very  great 
&  obvious — but  then  I  am  aware  that  people  who  thought  exactly 
the  contrary  w^i  be  naturally  backward  in  giving  me  their  opinion. 
The  sincerity,  the  honest  pure-hearted  sincerity,  for  which  I  so  earn- 
estly thank  you,  has  scarcely  had  time  to  act  &  express  itself  with 
readers  in  general,  neither  has  the  dispepsy.  Indeed  I  thank  you 
most  earnestly.  Truth  &  kindness, — how  rarely  do  they  come  to- 
gether! I  am  very  grateful  to  you.  It  is  curious  that  "Duchess 
May  "  is  not  a  favorite  of  mine,  &  that  I  have  sighed  one  or  two  se- 
cret wishes  toward  its  extirpation, — but  other  critics  besides  yourself 
have  singled  it  out  for  praise,  in  private  letters  to  me.  There  has 
been  no  printed  review  yet  I  believe — &  when  I  think  of  them,  I  try 
to  think  of  something  else  —  for  with  no  private  friends  among  the 
critical  body,  (not  that  I  c^  desire  to  owe  security  in  such  a  matter, 
to  private  friendship)  it  is  awful  enough,  this  looking  forward  to  be 
reviewed.  Never  mind.  The  ultimate  prosperity  of  a  book  lies  far 
above  the  critics,  &  can  neither  be  mended  nor  made,  nor  unmade, 
by  them. 

The  little  poem  called  'The  Claim  in  an  allegory'  could  not  find 
page-room,  &  it  did  not  find  enough  favour  with  me,  to  force  page- 
room.     That  is  the  fact. 

Dear  M"^  Westwood,  with  a  repetition  of  warm  &  earnest  thanks 
to    you   &  yours  —  to    you   &  my  other  Enfield  friends  —  for  your 
kindness,  your  sympathy,  &,  above  all,  your  candour, 
I  beg  you  to  believe  me 

most  faithfully  yours 

Elizabeth  B  Barrett." 

Book-plate  of  Thomas  Westwood. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth   Barrett.      Sonnets.      By  E.  B.  B. 

i2mo,  dark  blue  crushed  levant  morocco  extra,  uncut,  by  the 
Club  Bindery.  Reading  [Not  for  publication],  1847. 

First  Edition.  Of  this  privately  printed  little  volume  only  a  very 
few  copies  are  known.  None  has  heretofore  been  sold  at  auction 
either  in  England  or  in  this  country.  The  present  copy  was  for- 
merly owned  by  Charles  Kingsley,  to  whom  it  was  presented  by  Miss 
Mitford,  who  had  charge  of  the  printing  of  the  book  for  the  author. 
The  emblematic  binding  is  a  most  beautiful  example  of  the  artistic 
work  of  the  Club  Bindery. 

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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.  The  Runaway  Slave  at 
Pilgrim's  Point.  8vo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut,  unopened, 
and  unstitched.  London,  Edward  Moxon,  1849. 

First  Edition.     Only  a  few  uncut  copies  are  known  of  this  rare 

pamphlet.     The  present  copy  is  in  sheets  folded  and  laid  in  the 

wrapper,   and  is  in   the  finest  possible    condition.      It    measures 
S^^SK  inches. 

Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.     Gasa  Guidi  Windows. 
^y  --■  Small  Svo,  original  cloth.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1851. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  on 
half-title : 

"To  M«  Procter 

with  the  author's  kind 
regards." 


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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett  and  Robert.   Two  Poems. 

Svo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut. 

London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1854. 
First  Edition.     Scarce. 

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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.     Aurora   Leigh.      Svo, 
original  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1857. 

First  Edition. 

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>^  r-  Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.    Poems  Before  Congress. 

^  Svo,  original  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1S60. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  of 
Anna  Barrett,  sister  of  Mrs.  Browning,  on  fly-leaf. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.    Poems  Before  Congress. 

Svo,  original  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  i860. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.     Last  Poems.    Small  8vo, 
vellum.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1862. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  Robert  Browning's  auto- 
graph inscription : 

"Dearest  Isa  Blagden 
from  R  B. 
London,  March  25.  1862." 
Miss  Blagden  was  one  of  Mrs.  Browning's  most  intimate  friends, 
and  was  with  her  when  she  died. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.    The   Greek  Christian 
^J"  Poets  and  the  English  Poets.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth, 

uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1863. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.     The  Letters  of  Eliza- 
beth Barrett  Browning.     Edited  with  biographical  additions 
^  '^  by  Frederic  G.  Kenyon.     With  portraits.      2  volumes,  small  8vo, 

original  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1897. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett.     A  Study  of  Elizabeth 
Barrett  Browning.      By  Lilian  Whiting.      Small  8vo,  original 
cloth.  Boston,  Little,  Brown,  and  Co.,  1899. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert,  Senior.      Original  Manuscript  of  the 

Poem  "Hamelin."     20  pages,  4to,  half  brown  morocco,  by 

Tout. 

■Cr  "This  poem,  founded  upon  the  'Pied  Piper'  legend,  was  written 

by  the  father  of  Robert  Browning,  who  dabbled  a  good  deal  in  verse. 
Mr.  Browning,  some  two  years  before  his  death,  told  Mr.  T.  J. 
Wise  (who  showed  him  this  MS.  on  behalf  of  its  then  owner)  that  his 
father  wrote  the  poem  while  he,  R.  B.,  was  in  Germany.  That 
upon  his  (R.  B.'s)  return  to  England  Mr.  Browning  Senr.  showed 
this  very  MS.  to  his  son  —  who  afterwards  composed  his  own  work 
upon  the  same  subject. — This  MS.  was  given  by  Mr.  Browning  Sr. 
to  a  lady,  who  sold  it  immediately  after  the  poet's  death. — " 

—  Manuscript  note  on  fly-leaf  of  this  volume. 

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Browning,  Robert.     Pauline ;  A  Fragment  of  a  Confes- 
sion.    8vo,  original  boards,  paper  label,  iincut. 

London,  Saunders  and  Otley,  1833. 

yffw*  First  Edition.      Extremely  rare.      There  is  a  torn  hole  in  the  text 

of  one  of  the  leaves  (signature  An);  otherwise  this  is  a  very  fine 
copy.     The  present  owner,  after  endeavoring  for  years  to  obtain  an 
uncut  copy  in  the  original  binding,  secured  this  one  at  auction,  at 
Sotheby's,  last  December.     Only  1 1  copies  are  known  to  exist. 
Facsimile  of  title-page  opposite. 


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Browning,  Robert.     Paracelsus.     Small  Svo,  original  boards, 
paper  label,  uncut.  London,  Effingham  Wilson,  1835. 

A  very  fine  copy  of  the  scarce  First  Edition. 

43 
Brownii^g,  Robert.     Strafiford:    An  Historical  Tragedy. 

Svo,  original  paper  covers,  paper  label  on  front  cover,  uncut. 

London,  Printed  for  Longman, 
Rees,  Orme,  Brown,  Green,  &  Longman,  1837. 

First  Edition.  An  unusually  fine  copy  of  this  scarce  book.  More 
than  half  the  leaves  are  unopened. 

44 
Browning,  Robert.      Sordello.     Small  Svo,  cloth,  paper  label, 
uncut.  London,  Edward  Moxon,  1840. 

First  Edition.  The  copies  of  the  book  as  originally  issued  were 
bound  in  boards  with  paper  label.  Later  the  publisher's  unbound 
stock  of  the  first  edition  was  bound  in  green  cloth,  with  the  original 
paper  label ;  the  present  copy  is  one  of  these. 

45 
—  Vj~     Browning,  Robert.     Poems.     2  volumes,  small  Svo,  original 
cloth,  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  HaU,  1849. 

First  Edition. 

46 
Browning,  Robert.     Christmas-Eve  and  Easter-Day.    A 
Poem.     Small  Svo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1850. 
First  Edition. 

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PAULINE; 


FRAGMENT  OF  A   CONFESSION. 


Plus  ne  suis  ce  que  j'ai  6t6, 
Et  nele  spaurois  jamais  etre. 

MahotX 


LONDON: 

SAUNDERS  AND  OTLEY,  CONDUIT  STREET. 

1833. 


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Browning,  Robert.    Cleon.    Small  8vo,  crushed  levant  morocco, 
top  edges  gilt,  other  edges  uncut,  by  Riviere  and  Sons. 

London,  Edward  Moxon,  1855. 
First  Edition.     Rare.     Only  a  few  copies  were  printed  for  the 
author's  use. 

48 

Browning,  Robert.     The  Statue  and  the  Bust.     Small  Bvo, 

crushed  levant  morocco,  top  edges  gilt,  other  edges  uncut,  by 

Riviere  and  Sons.  London,  Edward  Moxon,  1855. 

First  Edition.     Rare.     Only  a  few  copies  were  printed  for  the 

author's  use. 

49 
Browning,  Robert.     Men  and  Women.     2  volumes,  small 
8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1855. 

First  Edition.  Mrs.  Anna  Jameson's  copy,  with  her  autograph 
signature  on  fly-leaf  of  volume  2,  and  a  few  comments  in  her  hand- 
writing on  several  pages. 

50 

Browning,  Robert.  Gold  Hair:  A  Legend  of  Pornic.    Small 

8vo,  blue  crushed  levant  morocco,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut,  by 

Zaehnsdorf.  London,  1864. 

First  Edition.     Scarce.     Only  a  few  copies  were  printed  for  the 

author's  use.     Original  plain  blue-granite  paper  covers  bound  in. 

Inserted  is  an  unpublished  autograph  letter  of  i^  pages,  with 
envelope  addressed  "Miss  Browning, 

1.  Maitland  Park  Crescent, 


Haverstock  Hill, 
N.  W. 


The  letter  is  here  given  in  full. 


"19  Warwick  Crescent, 
Upper  Westboume  Terrace,  W. 
My  dear  Louise,  Aug.  i.  '63. 

Where  there  is  a  will  there  is  not  always  a  way ;  and  here 
am  I  going  without  that  visit  to  you  which  I  fully  meant  to  indulge 
in.  1  have  of  late  been  working  hard  all  day  up  to  the  last  min- 
ute —  I  can  hardly  be  so  occupied  another  season.  Will  you  forgive 
me?  and  believe  that,  as  soon  as  I  return,  one  of  my  first  attempts 
will  be  to  see  you  ?  I  go  to  the  old  place  in  Bretagne  where  I  stayed 
last  year — my  father  &  sister  accompanying  me,  of  course,  as  well 
as  the  Boy,  whom  you  will  make  acquaintance  with,  one  day. 
All  kindest  regards  to  you  all 
from 

yours  affectionately  ever 

Robert  Browning." 
The  "old  place  in  Bretagne"  was  Pornic,  and  "Gold  Hair"  was 
written  there  during  the  visit  of  1863. 

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Browning,  Robert.  Dramatis  Personae.  Proof  copy,  with 
manuscript  revisions  made  before  the  pubhcation  of  the  first 
edition.     Small  8vo,  half  calf,  sprinkled  edges.     [London,  1864.] 

On  the  fly-leaf  of  this  unique  volume  is  written : 
"This   is    the   first  copy  of    Dramatis  Personae  that  ever  came 
^■S~S^         from  the  press,  and  was  presented  to  me  by  its  author,  all  the  writ- 
ing and  corrections  in  it  (except  this  note)  being  in  his  own  hand- 
writing. MD  Conway." 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  note  which  apparently  was  written  by 
Browning  when  he  called  at  Conway's  house  to  leave  the  volume. 
It  is  here  quoted  in  full. 

"  Dear  Mr.  Conway,  Here  are  the  proofs  which  I  promised :  they 
will  be  published  on  or  after  the  21*'  May.  I  rely  on  your  entirely 
keeping  them  to  yourself,  as,  with  one  exception,  nobody  has  seen 
them.  Yours  very  truly  Robert  Browning 

April  26,  '64" 

On  the  fly-title  of  the  poem  "James  Lee"  is  written  in  Brown- 
ing's autograph : 

"Dramatis  Personae 
by 
Robert  Browning. 
To  be  Published  May  21st." 
The  other  writing  and  corrections  by  Browning  are  too  numerous 
to  mention  here  in  detail. 

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Browning,  Robert,    Dramatis  Personae.    8vo,  original  cloth, 
^^  uncut.  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1864. 

■'^     "  First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  on 

half-title: 

"Reuben  Browning 
from  his  very  affectionately 

R  Browning. 
June  16.  '64." 
Reuben  Browning  was  the  uncle  of  the  Poet. 


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Browning,  Robert.    Selections  from  the  Works  of  Robert 
-^  Browning.     8  parts,  small  4to,  original  paper  covers,  uncut. 

—  London,  Edward  Moxon  &  Co.,  1865. 

First  Edition.     Scarce  in  this  form.     There  is  a  steel  portrait  of 
Browning,  by  Baker,  in  part  8. 

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Browning,  Robert.     The  Ring  and  the  Book.     Proof  copy, 
with  manuscript  revisions  made  before  the  pubhcation  of  the  first 
edition.     4  volumes  bound  in  2 ;  each  lettered  on  back,  "  Brown- 
ing Revises."  London,  1868. 

The  book  containing  volumes  i  and  2  is  a  small  8vo,  cloth,  uncut, 
while  the  book  containing  volumes  3  and  4  is  a  folio,  cloth,  sprinkled 
edges,  with  the  text  printed  on  one  side  only  of  each  leaf — actually 
the  proofs  taken  before  the  type  was  arranged  into  pages  of  the  size 
adopted  for  the  volumes  as  published ;  that  is,  they  are  galley  proofs. 

These  two  highly  interesting  volumes  contain  hundreds  of  auto- 
graph corrections,  both  textual  and  typographical,  made  by  Brown- 
ing himself 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter  of  4  pa^^es,  which  is  here  printed 
for  the  first  time.  "19,  Warwick  Crescent, 

Upper  Westbourne  Terrace,  W. 
My  dear  Mr  Conway,  Oct.  30.  *68. 

I  am,  now  even,  hardly  in  a  position  to  say  exactly  what  I  can 
do  about  the  sheets ;  still  the  presumption  is  that  I  may  be  able  to 
let  you  have  them  in  the  course  of  next  week.  It  is  arranged  that 
two  volumes  shall  appear  in  the  U.  S.  on  Dec.  i  ;  &  the  third  & 
fourth,  also  together,  on  March  i.  Hence  the  publication  of  vol.  2. 
will  anticipate  the  appearance  of  the  English  edition  by  a  month.  I 
have,  therefore,  to  furnish  you  with  the  whole  of  the  half,  if  it  would 
be  of  service,  and  I  do  so  —  on  the  stipulation,  now  obligatory, —  since 
the  property  in  the  poem  is  no  longer  mine,  on  either  side  of  the 
Atlantic, —  that,  here,  you  make  no  use  of  the  second  volume  before 
its  appearance  (nor,  of  course,  of  the  first) — and,  in  America,  that 
you  engage  to  give  nothing  that  may  precede  the  regular  publication 
of  reviews, — and  that  you  will  be  expressly  answerable  for  your  di- 
rections on  this  head  being  obeyed  by  the  editor  of  the  newspaper 
which  you  furnish  with  criticism, —  on  this  stipulation, — if  you  will 
please  to  repeat  it, —  I  will  send  the  sheets.  You  know  very  cer- 
tainly that,  so  far  as  yourself  are  concerned,  I  need  no  such  assur- 
ance: but  I  should  be  seriously  in  fault  if  I  omitted  these  precau- 
tions, and,  by  a  misunderstanding  anywhere,  really  broke  my  en- 
gagements,—  to  which  it  would  amount.  Here  I  am  in  no  anxiety, 
— but  it  will  be  for  you  to  take  care, — by  abstaining  from  any  pre- 
mature transmission  of  your  M.S., —  that  nobody  can  possibly  pre- 
tend to  mistake  your  intentions,  and  so  subject  me  to  treatment  I 
should  least  like.  Will  you  kindly  inform  me  on  all  these  points?  I 
was  sorry  to  miss  your  visit  the  other  afternoon. 

Ever  most  truly  yours 

Robert  Browning. 

I  have  said  only  the  business — saying  only  what  I  am  bound  to  be 
precise  about :  why  should  I  add,  what  you  must  understand  so  well, 
that,  for  the  rest,  I  value  properly  the  attention  you  will  give,  and 
the  sympathy,  to  my  work?  My  own  interest  that  you  should  put 
them  into  play,  as  you  have  so  often  done,  is  so  obvious  that  I  dwell 
the  more  determinedly  on  the  other  side  of  the  question.  Pray  re- 
member me  to  Mrs.  Conway." 


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Browning,  Robert.     The  Ring  and  the  Book.    4  volumes, 
small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

/'^  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1 868-1 869. 

First  Edition. 

56 
Browning,  Robert.     Helen's  Tower.     Square  folio,  2  leaves, 
page  measure  7^x9^  inches.     The  poem,  in  large  type,  is  on 
the  first  page  of  the  first  leaf;  the  other  leaves  are  blank. 

Privately  printed;  dated  April  26,  1870. 

First  Edition.  Very  rare.  This  sonnet  is  a  tribute  to  the  mem- 
ory of  Helen,  mother  of  Lord  Dufferin ;  it  was  suggested  by  the 
memorial  tower  erected  by  her  son  on  his  estate  at  Clandeboye. 
Tennyson's  poem  of  the  same  title  is  a  like  memorial. 


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Browning,  Robert.     Balaustion's  Adventure.    Including  A 
^{~^  Transcript  from  Euripides.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  187 1. 
First  Edition. 

58 
Browning,  Robert.   Prince  Hohenstiel-Schwangau,  Sav- 
iour of  Society.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  187 1. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  on 
title-page : 

"Ernst   Benzon  —  from  his 

affectionate  friend 
Dec:  18.  '71.  Robert  Browning." 

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Browning,  Robert.   Prince  Hohenstiel-Schwangau.  Sav- 
^  iour  of  Society.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  187 1. 
First  Edition. 

60 
Browning,  Robert.    Fifine  at  the  Fair.     Small  8vo,  original 
^'{?         cloth,  uncut  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1872. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert.    Red  Cotton   Night-Cap  Country,  or 

Turf  and  Towers.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 
/)Q,  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1873. 

First  Edition.     Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  on 
title-page : 

"Miss  Heaton — with  the 

affectionate  regards  of  R  B." 


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S^         Browning,  Robert.     The  Inn   Album.     Small   Svo,  original 
cloth,  uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1875. 

First  Edition. 


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..—      Browning,  Robert.    Aristophanes'    Apology,  including    A 
^  ^  Transcript  from  Euripides,  being  the  Last  Adventure  of  Balaus- 

tion.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1875. 
First  Edition. 

64 

Browning,  Robert.  Pacchiarotto,  and  How  He  Worked  in 

/C^jl^  Distemper:    With   Other  Poems.     Small   Svo,    original   cloth, 

uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1876. 

First  Edition.  Inserted  is  a  quotation,  in  Browning's  handwriting, 
from  "Of  Pacchiarotto,  and  How  He  Worked  in  Distemper,"  as 
follows : 

"Query:  Was  ever  a  quainter 
Crochet  than  that  of  the  painter 
Giacomo  Pacchiarotto 
Who  took  '  Reform '  for  his  motto  ? 

[Signed]     Robert  Browning. 
London,  Dec.  31.  '76." 

This  identical  autograph  was  sold  at  the  Foote  sale  in  1895  with  a 
rebound  copy  of  the  book. 


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Browning,  Robert.  The  Agamemnon  of  iEschylus.  Small 
8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut.       London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1877. 
First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert.  La  Saisiaz :  The  Two  Poets  of  Croisic. 

//^  i6mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

^  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1878. 

First  Edition. 

67 

Browning,   Robert.     Dramatic   Idyls.     Small   8vo,  original 
Z/_^?  cloth,  uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1879. 

First  Edition. 

68 

Browning,  Robert.     Dramatic  Idyls.     Second  Series.    Small 
X,  Sp  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut.       London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1880. 

First  Edition. 

69 

Browning,  Robert.  Jocoseria.  Small  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1883. 


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Browning,  Robert.     Parleyings  with  Certain  People  of 
/^  Importance  in  Their  Day,  etc.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth, 

uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1887. 

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Browning,  Robert.    Asolando :  Fancies  and  Facts.   Small 
/^  w  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1890. 
First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert.  Of  "Fijfine  at  the  Fair,"  "Christmas 
Jc^,  Eve  and  Easter  Day,"  and  Other  of  Mr.  Browning's  Poems. 

By  Jeanie  Morison.     Small  8vo,  original  cloth. 

William  Blackwood  and  Sons,  Edinburgh,  1892. 
First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert.    Personalia.    By  Edmund  Gosse.     Fron- 
O  •  tispiece  portrait  of  Browning.     Small  8vo,  original  vellum-paper 

boards,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 
^  London,  T.  Fisher  Unwin,  1891. 

First  Edition. 

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Browning,  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Barrett.  The  Letters 
yjT  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning,  1845-1846. 

^  With  portraits  and  facsimiles.     2   volumes,  small  8vo,  original 

cloth,  uncut.  London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1899. 

First  Edition. 

75 
^         Burton,  Robert.       The    Anatomy  of  Melancholy.     En- 
^0»  graved  title  by  C.  le  Blon,  with  portrait  of  the  Author.     Tall  4to, 

old  sheep,  red  edges.       Oxford,  Printed  for  Henry  Cripps,  1628. 

A  good  copy  of  the  Third  Edition.  Book-plate  of  Samuel  Cowper 
Brown. 

76 

^  ^       Carew,  Thomas.     Poems.     By  Thomas  Carew,  Esquire.     Small 
Lx*^  '  8vo,  crushed  red  levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the  rough,  by  Bed- 

ford. London,  Printed  by  L  D.  for  Thomas  Walkley,  1640. 

Fine  copy  of  the  rare  First  Edition.  A  few  page  numbers  slightly 
cut  into. 

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#>j  Carew,  Thomas.     Poems.     By  Thomas  Carew,  Esquire.     Small 

/  y '  8vo,  original  calf,  sprinkled  edges.  London,  Printed  by 

L  D.  for  Thomas  Walkley,  1642. 

Second  Edition,  revised  and  enlarged.  Very  fine  copy  of  this 
scarce  book.  From  the  Earl  of  Westmoreland's  library  and  with 
his  autograph  book-plate,  dated  1856. 


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Cartwright,  William.  Comedies :  Tragi-Comedies,  With 
Other  Poems.  Fine  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by 
Lombart.  8vo,  brown  crushed  levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the 
rough,  by  Reviere.  London,  Printed  for 

Humphrey  Moseley,  1651. 

First  Edition.  Large  copy,  containing  the  duplicate  leaves  of 
signatures  Ul,  Ull,  Ulll,  and  the  cancelled  leaf  of  commendatory 
verses  by  Henry  Davidson  and  R.  Watkins.  Thomas  Warton's  au- 
tograph signature  is  mounted  on  the  inside  of  the  front  cover,  and 
his  manuscript  notes  appear  throughout  the  volume.  Inserted  is  an 
autograph  letter  by  Thomas  Park  referring  to  this  book. 

Book-plate  of  James  Bindley,  and  his  autograph  inscription  on 
fly-leaf,  signed  "J.  B.  1800,"  explaining  why  he  preferred  this  to 
many  better  copies. 

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Castle,    Egerton.     English    Book-Plates,  Ancient    and 
^  Modern.     Illustrated.     4.10,  original  cloth,  gilt  top. 

London,  George  Bell  &  Sons,  1 893. 
First  Edition. 

80 

Cawdray,  Robert.        A     Treasurie    or    Store-House    of 
^S~~  Similies:   Both    Pleasaunt,    deHghtfuU,    and   profitable   for   all 

Estates  of  Men  in  generall.     4to,  boards,  leather  back,  yellow- 
edges.  London,  Printed  by  Tho.  Creed,  1 600. 
First  Edition.     Good  copy. 

81 
y  Chatterton,  Thomas.     Poems,  Supposed  to  have  been  written 

p.,  at  Bristol  by  Thomas  Rowley,  and  Others,  in  the  fifteenth  cen- 

tiuy.     8vo,  old  half  calf.  London,  Printed  for 

T.  Payne  and  Son,  1777. 
Second  Edition,  with  an  appendix  which  does  not  appear  in  the 
earlier  issue. 

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Chaucer,    Geoffrey.     The  woorkes  of  Geffrey  Chaucer, 

/  \/)  newly  printed,  with  diuers  addicions,  whiche  were  neuer  in  printe 

*  before:    With  the  siege  and  destruccion  of  the  worthy  citee  of 

Thebes,  compiled  by  Jhon  Lidgate,  Monke  of  Burie.     As  in  the 
table  more  plainly  dooeth  appere.     Folio,  Black-Letter. 

Imprinted  at  London,  by  lohn  Kyngston,  for 
lohn  Wight,  dwellyng  in  Poules  Churchyarde,  Anno  1561. 

Very  fine,  large,  and  perfect  copy  of  this  scarce  edition.  Some 
leaves  water-stained. 

A  large  woodcut  of  Chaucer's  arms  occupies  about  two-thirds  of 
the  title-page,  with  the  date  1560  under  the  helmet,  and  these 'lines 
of  verse  in  a  compartment  below : 

"Vertue  florisheth  in  Chaucer  still, 
Though  death  of  hym,  hath  wrought  his  will." 


Coleridge,  S. T.  Christobel:  Kubla  Khan,  A  Vision;  The 
Pains  of  Sleep.  By  S.  T.  Coleridge,  Esq.  Svo,  buff  calf, 
top  edges  gilt,  other  edges  uncut. 

London,  Printed  for  John  Murray,  18 16. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

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Corbet,  Richard.     Certain  Elegant  Poems,  Written  by  Dr. 
j-^  Corbet.     Small  8vo,  sprinkled  calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 

*^*  London,  printed  by  R.  Cotes  for  Andrew  Crooke,  1647. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Rare. 
With  the  extra  pages  55  to  85,  printed  later  than  1647  and  added 
to  some  copies  of  the  first  issue. 

85 
Corbet,  Richard.  Poetica  Stromata,  or  a  Collection  of  Sundry 
^^Z-  Pieces  in  Poetry:  Drawne  by  the  known  and  approued  hand  of 

R.  C,     Small  8vo,  original  vellum.  n.  p..  Anno  1648. 

This  is  the  Second  Edition  of  "Certain  Elegant  Poems."     A  re- 
markably fine  and  very  large  copy  of  this  rare  volume. 

86 
Cotton,  Charles.     Poems  on  Several  Occasions.    Written 
/^' '  by  Charles  Cotton,  Esq.     8vo,  old  calf,  extra. 

London,  Printed  for  Tho.  Basset, 
Will.  Hinsman  and  Tho.  Fox,  1689. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

87 
Coyerdale,   Miles.     Certain   most   godly,   fruitful,   and 
^ O  *  comfortable  letters  of  such  true  Saintes  and  holy  Martyrs  of 

God,  as  in  the  late  bloodye  persecution  here  within  this  Realme, 
gaue  their  lyues  for  the  Defence  of  Christes  holy  gospel :  written 
in  the  tyme  of  theyr  affliction  and  cruell  imprysonment.  Square 
8vo,  Black- Letter,  old  calf,  blind  tooled,  gilt  edges. 

Imprinted  at  London  by  John  Day,  1564. 
First  Edition.     Scarce. 
Two  book-plates  of  William  Hopkinson  and  one  of  E.  H.  Firth. 


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S^  Cowley,  Abraham.  The  Mistresse,  or  Seuerall  Copies  of 
Love- Verses.  Written  by  Mr.  A.  Cowley.  Small  8vo,  orig- 
inal sheep,  sprinkled  edges.  London,  Printed  for 

Humphrey  Moseley,  1647. 
First  Edition.  Fine  copy,  except  that  a  piece  has  been  torn  from 
signature  H2  and  rudely  repaired.  Following  the  text  is  "A  Table 
of  the  Heads  in  this  Poem"  on  6  pages,  and  Humphrey  Moseley's 
list  of  his  publications  covering  16  pages.  Among  the  books 
thus  advertised  are  the  poems  of  Suckling,  Donne,  Waller,  Fan- 
shaw,  Carew,  Milton,  Shirley,  Crashaw,  Quarles,  Shakespeare, 
Stanley,  and  Cartwright. 


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89 

CowPER,  William.     Poems  by  William  Cowper;     The  Task, 

1^  a  Poem  in  Six  Books.     By  William  Cowper.     2  volumes,  8vo, 

sprinkled  calf,  gilt  edges.  London,  Printed  for 

T.  Johnson,  1782  and  1785. 
First  Edition  of  each  volume. 

90 
Cowper,  William,  and  tJohn  Newton.     Olney  Hymns,  in 

^^  Three  Books.     i2mo,  old  half-calf.  London,  Printed  and 

Sold  by  W.  Oliver,  1779. 
First  Edition. 

91 

Crashaw,  Richard.     Steps  to  the  Temple.     Sacred  Poems, 

^  With  other  Delights  of  the  Muses.    By  Richard  Crashaw.     Small 

'  1 2mo,  original  sheep.  London,  Printed  by 

T.  W.  for  Humphrey  Moseley,  1646. 

First  Edition,  and  a  very  tall  copy,  with  the  edges  of  some  leaves 
uncut,  but  water  stained,  binding  loose,  and  the  margins  of  a  few 
leaves  cut  close.  The  armorial  book-plate  of  the  Right  Hont>le 
John  Lord  Hervey,  dated  March  the  23^,  1702,  is  on  the  back  of  the 
title-leaf.  Two  names  written  on  title-page.  An  exceedingly  rare 
book  in  any  condition. 

92 
Crisostome,    S.     Homilia.     21    Homilies   of    St.    Chrysostom. 
'-  8vo,  original  calf,  cracked.  n.  p.,  1479. 

Printed  with  Gothic  type.  A  beautiful  example  of  fifteenth  cen- 
tury typography.  The  book  has  very  wide  margins,  and  is  in  fine 
condition  throughout.  Inserted  is  a  description  of  the  volume  with 
notes  in  regard  to  the  Author. 

Autograph  of  Charles  Jordan  on  fly-leaf,  with  the  statement  "Cost 
me  ;^XU/RV/— " 

93 
^  D'Ayenant,  William.     Gondibert :  A  Heroic  Poem.    Writ- 

'#  ten  by  S""  William  D'Avenant.     4to,  original  calf,  rebacked. 

London,  Printed  by 
Tho.  Newcomb  for  John  Holden,  1651. 
First  Edition.     Fine  large  copy. 

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De  Vinne,  Theodore  L.     Brilliants.     A  Setting  of  Humorous 
t^ST^  Poetry  in  Brilliant  Types.     48mo,  original  morocco  extra,  gilt 

edges.  New  York,  The  De  Vinne  Press,  1888. 

This  tiny  volume  was  privately  printed  by  Mr.  De  Vinne  for  pre- 
sentation purposes.     It  is  a  marvel  of  printing  from  small  types. 
Scarce. 

95 
DiBDiN,   T.   F.      The   Library   Companion;    or  the   Young 
*^  9  Man's  Guide,  and  the  Old  Man's  Comfort,  in  the  Choice  of  a 

Library.     8vo,  original  boards,  paper  label,  uncut. 

Lotxdon,  Printed  for  Harding, 
Triphook,  and  Lepard  and  J.  Major,  1825. 
Second  Edition. 

96 

.       DoBSON,  Austin.    A  Postscript  to  Dr.  Goldsmith's  Retalia- 
S~  \Z.  tion,  Being  an  Epitaph  on  Samuel  Johnson,  LL,  D.     4to,  un- 

stitched as  issued,  uncut.  [London,]  Printed  in  June,  1896. 

Only  a  few  copies  were  made  of  this  privately  printed  pamphlet. 
Austin  Dobson's  autograph  signature  is  on  the  front  cover. 


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97 
DoBsoN,  Austin.    Verses  Read  at  the  Dinner  of  the  Omar 
Khayyam  Club,  on  Thursday,  25th  March,  1897.     8vo,  orig- 
inal paper  covers,  amcut.  London,  Printed  at  the 

Chiswick  Press,  1897. 

The  edition  of  this  Poem  consisting  of  100  copies  was  printed  for 
Edmund  Gosse  to  be  presented  to  the  members  of  the  Omar  Khay- 
yam Club  as  a  memento  of  his  Presidency. 

98 

^^      DoBSON,  Austin.    A  Paladin  of  Philanthrophy,  and  Other 

*^  Papers.     1 2mo,  original  cloth,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

London,  Chatto  &  Windus,  1899. 
First  Edition. 

99 
^      Donne,  John.     Legatus  Opus  Carol!  Paschalii.     Small  8vo, 
/A.      "  old  calf.  Rothomagi,  1598. 

John  Donne's  copy,  with  his  autograph  on  the  title-page. 

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Donne,  John.  Poems,  by  J.  D.  With  Elegies  On  The  Authors 
Death,  4to,  dark  blue  crushed  levant  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges, 
by  Riviere.  London,  Printed  by  M.  F.  for  John  Marriot,  1633. 
First  Edition.  This  very  fine  and  large  copy  has  the  two  leaves 
with  "The  Printer  to  the  Understanders "  and  "Hexastichon  Bib- 
liopolae,"  often  missing. 

101 

Donne,  John.  Poems,  By  J.  D.  With  Elegies  On  The  Author's 
Death.  Brilliant  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Mar- 
shall, with  the  stanza  by  Izaak  Walton.  Small  8vo,  blue  morocco 
extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Bedford. 

London,  printed  by  M.  F.  for  John  Marriot,  1635. 
Second  Edition.     A  fine  large  copy  of  this  scarce  book. 

102 

Donne,  John.     Letters  to   Severall  Persons  of  Honour. 

Brilliant  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Lombart.     4to, 
original  sheep,  rebacked. 

London,  Printed  by  J.  Flesher,  for  Richard  Marriot,  1651. 
First  Edition.     Very  fine  large  copy. 

103 
Drayton,  Michael.     Poems:    By  Michaell  Draiton  Esquire. 
Small  8vo,   green  crushed  levant   morocco,   edges   gilt   on   the 
rough,  by  Bedford.  London,  Printed  for  N.  Ling,  1605. 

First  Collected  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

104 
Drayton,  Michael.  Poems  by  Michael  Drayton  Esquyer. 
Collected  into  one  Volvune.  With  sondry  peeces  inserted  never 
before  Imprinted.  Engraved  title,  and  engraved  portrait  of  the 
author  on  verso  of  printed  title.  Tall  4to,  buff  polished  calf 
extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 

London,  Printed  by  W.  Stansby  for  John  Smethwicke  [16 19]. 
Very  fine  and  very  large  copy  of  the  most  complete  and  best  of 
the  collected  editions  of  Drayton. 

Besides  the  engraved  and  printed  titles  mentioned  above,  there  are 
six  separate  printed  title-pages  to  the  various  parts,  all  dated  16 19. 

Small  portion  of  blank  margin  of  engraved  title-page  skillfully 
mended. 

Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

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Dryden,  John.     Annus  Mirabilis ;   The  Year  of  Wonders, 
1666.     An  Historical  Poem.     Small  8vo,  original  sheep. 
St/  London,  Printed  for  Henry  Herringman,  1667. 

First  Edition.     Very  scarce. 

106 
Dryden,  John.     The  Wild  Gallant:  A  Comedy.     As  it  was 
Acted  at  the  Theater-Royal,  by  His  Majesties  Servants.    Written 
by  John  Dryden,  Esq.     4to,  boards,  leather  label. 

In  the  Savoy.     Printed  by 
Tho.  Newcomb,  for  H.  Herringman,  1669. 
First  Edition  of  the  first  drama  written  by  Dryden. 


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107 
Dryden,  John.     The  Rival  Ladies.    A  Tragi-Comedy.     As  it 
was   Acted   at   the   Theatre-Royal.     Written   by  John    Driden, 
Esquire.     4to,  boards,  leather  label. 

London,  Printed  for  H.  Herringman,  1669. 
First  Edition. 

108 
Dryden,  John.     Religio  Laici,  or  a  Laymans  Faith.    A 

Poem,     Written  by  Mr.  Dryden.     4to,  half  green  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  Jacob  Tonson,  1682. 
First  Edition. 
Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

109 

Dryden,  John.     The  Medall.     A  Satyre  against  Sedition.     By 

the  Authour  of  Absalom  and  Achitopbel.     4to,  half  red  levant 

morocco,  gilt  top.  London,  Printed  for  Jacob  Tonson,  1682. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 
Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

110 

Dryden,  John.     The  Hind  and  the  Panther.    A  Poem,  In 

Three  Parts.     4to,  olive  crushed  levant  morocco,  gilt  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  Jacob  Tonson,  1687. 

A  fine  large  copy  of  this  very  rare  book,  with  the  leaf  of  license, 
usually  wanting,  dated  "April  the  nth  1687." 
Margin  of  title-page  skillfully  mended. 

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Dryden,  John.    Britannia  Rediviva :  A  Poem  on  the  Birth  of 

the  Prince.     4to,  half  crushed  red  levant  morocco,  gilt  top,  by 

c/ii»  Bradstreet's.  London,  Printed  for  J.  Tonson,  1688. 

First  Edition. 

Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

112 

Du  Bartas,  G.  S.     Du  Bartas,  His  Deuine  Weekes  and 

,/  Workes  Translated :     And  Dedicated  to  the  Kings  most  ex- 

'  cellent  Maiestie,  by  Joshuah  Sylvester.     Engraved  title,  by  Hole. 

4to,  original  calf,  rebacked. 

Printed  at  London  for  Humfrey  Lownes,  161 1. 

Fourth  Edition.  Prince  Henry's  copy,  with  his  arms  and  initials 
stamped  in  gold  on  both  the  front  and  back  covers.  Sylvester  was 
Prince  Henry's  tutor.  This  book  was  so  popular  that  no  less  than 
30  editions  were  printed  in  6  years.  No  perfect  copy  of  the  first  edi- 
tion is  known. 


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Eliot,  George.     George  Eliot's  Life  as  Related  in  her  Letters 

and  Journals.     Arranged   and  Edited  by  Her  Husband,  J.  W. 

Cross.     Illustrated.     3  volumes,  i2mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

Edinburgh,  William  Blackwood  &  Sons,  1885. 

First  Edition.  Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription 
"To  William  Wood  with  affectionate  remembrance  from  J.  W. 
Cross  London  21  Jany.  1885." 

114 

Elyot,  Thomas.     The  Boke  Named  the  Govuernour  de- 

I  /  uised  by  syr  Thomas   Elyot  knight.     Small   8vo,    original  calf. 

Londini,  Thomse  Bertheleti,  1544. 

Very  large  and  fine  copy.  Printed  in  black-letter.  The  date 
on  the  colophon  differs  from  that  on  the  title,  being  M.D.XLVI. 

115 
Eye,  G.  W.     Decorative  Heraldry.     A  Practical  Handbook  of 
_  Its  Artistic  Treatment.     Illustrated.     4to,  original  cloth,  gilt  top. 

London,  George  Bell  &  Sons,  1897. 
First  Edition. 

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Euclid.     The  Elements  of  Geometrie  of  the  most  auncient 
Philosopher  Euclide  of  Megara.     Faithfully  (now  first)  translated 
X  y  •  into  the  Englishe  toung,  by  H.  Billingsley.     With  a  very  fruitfull 

Preface  by  M.  I.  Dee.     Engraved  title.      Illvistrated  with  dia- 
grams.    Folio,  original  blind-stamped  calf. 

At  London,  Printed  by  John  Daye,  1570. 
First  Edition  of  the  first  English  translation  of  Euclid.    Very  fine 
copy.     Scarce. 

Portions  of  some  of  the  diagrams  are  printed  separately  and  are 
attached  so  that  they  may  be  lifted  for  demonstrations  of  the  figures. 
On  the  last  page  is  Daye's  portrait  and  colophon. 

117 
Field,  Eugene.    With  Trumpet  and  Drum.     8vo,  original 
A    ^  boards,  Japan  paper  back,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

New  York,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1892. 
First  Edition.    Number  71  of  250  copies  printed  on  Large  Paper. 

118 
Field,  Eugene.     Second  Book  of  Verse.     8vo,  original  half 
cloth,  leather  label,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Chicago,  Melville  E.  Stone,  1892. 
First  Edition.     Large  Paper  copy. 


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j-^;        Field,  Eugene.    Love  Songs  of  Childhood.     8vo,  original 
vellum,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

New  York,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1894. 

First  Edition.    Number  37  of  106  copies  on  Large  Paper,  printed 
from  type  on  Van  Gelder  paper. 


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^j    Fielding,  Henry.     The  History  of  Tom  Jones,  A  Foimd- 
Q  ling.     6  volumes,  i2mo,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  A.  Millar,  1 749. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

121 

[Fielding,  Henry.]     The  History  of  Tom  Jones  the  Found- 
^  ling,  in  his  Married  State.     1 2mo,  original  calf. 

'^ '  London,  Printed  for  J.  Robinson,  1750. 

First  Edition.     This   book  was  not  written  by  Fielding,  but   is 
usually  catalogued  under  his  name  as  above. 

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Fielding,  Henry.     Amelia.     4  volumes,  1 2mo,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  A.  Millar,  1752, 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

123 

Fielding,  Henry.    The  Journal  of  A  Voyage  to  Lisbon. 

SV  By  the  late  Henry  Fielding,  Esq;   i2mo,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  A.  Millar,  1755. 
First  Edition.     With  old  armorial  book-plate. 
Fine  copy. 

124 
Fielding,  Henry.     The  Journal  of  a  Voyage  to  Lisbon. 

By  Henry  Fielding.     With  Introduction  and   Notes   by  Austin 
Dobson.     8vo,  original  boards,  vellum  back,  uncut. 

London,  Printed  and  issued  by 
Charles  Whittingham  &  Co.,  1892. 

This  is  number  17  of  25  copies  printed  on  Japanese  vellum. 

125 

Flecknoe,  Richard.    Rich.  Flecknoe's  ^Enigmatical  Char- 
acters.    Being  Rather  a  new  Work,  then  new  Impression  of  the 
old.    Small  Svo,  old  calf,  sprinkled  edges.        London,  Printed  by 
R.  Wood,  for  the  Author,  in  the  year  1665. 

Second  Edition.      Lowndes  states  that  according  to  Malone  the 
Characters  vary  in  each  edition.     This  copy  contains  78  Characters. 
Characters  75,  76,  and  78  are  defaced  by  pen  marks. 
Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

126 
Fletcher,  Phineas.     The   Purple   Island,  or  The   Isle  of 
Man :  Together  with  Piscatorie  Eclogs  and  other  Poeticall  Mis- 
cellanies.    By  P.   F.     4to,  sprinkled  calf  extra,  gilt  edges,  by 
Bedford.  Printed  by  the 

Printers  to  the  Universitie  of  Cambridge,  1633. 

First  Edition.  A  fine  copy  of  this  scarce  book.  It  has  the  two 
blank  leaves  before  the  title  to  the  second  part  and  the  leaf  at  the 
end  of  the  volume  containing  the  verses  "  To  my  deare  friend,  the 
Spencer  of  this  age,"  by  Francis  Quarles.  These  three  leaves  are 
frequently  wanting.     There  is  no  blank  leaf  before  the  first  title. 

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Fletcher,  Phineas.     Locustae,  Vel  Pietas  lesvitica.     Per 

Phineam  Fletcher.  Apud  Thomam  &  loannen  Bvcke,  1627. 

^0^  The  Locusts,  or  Apollyonists.     By  Phineas  Fletcher. 

Printed  by  Thomas  Bvcke  and  lohn  Bvke,  1627. 
Both  in  one  volume,  4to,  brown  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Pratt. 
First  Edition  of  each  part. 

A  fine  copy  of  this  very  rare  volume,  with  the  preliminary  leaf, 
blank  but  for  a  small  woodcut,  commonly  wanting. 

128 
j^        Ford,  Paul  Leicester.     The  New-England  Primer.     A 

History  of  Its  Origin  and  Development  with  a  reprint  of  the 
Unique  Copy  of  the  Earliest  Known  Edition  and  many  fac-simile 
Illustrations  and  Reproductions.  Illustrated.  Square  8vo,  boards, 
morocco  back,  uncut. 

New  York,  Dodd,  Mead,  and  Company,  1897. 
No.  250  of  425  copies  printed  on  American  hand-made  paper. 

129 
Franklin,  Benjamin.     Facsimile  of  Poor  Richard's  Al- 
20*  manack  for  1733.    With  an  Introduction  by  John  Bigelow  and 

Notes  on  the  Portraits.      1 2mo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

The  Duodecimos,  Printed  at  the  De  Vinne  Press,  1894. 

This  is  number  78  of  132  copies  on  hand-made  paper. 
There  are  14  portraits  of  Franklin  in  the  volume. 


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Franklin  Imprint.  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette.  Num- 
ber 425.  From  January  27  to  February  3,  1736-7.  Folio, 
uncut,  Philadelphia,  Printed  by  B.  Franklin,  1736,7. 

Very  scarce. 

131 
Froissart,  John.  Here  begynnith  the  firste  volum  of 
Sir  John  Froissart:  of  the  Cronycles  of  Englande,  Fraunce, 
Spayne,  Portyngale,  Scotlande,  Bretaine,  Flaunders:  and  other 
places  adioynynge.  Translated  oute  of  Frenche  into  oure  materall 
Englysshe  tongue,  by  John  Bouchier  knyghte,  lorde  Bemers: 
Full-page  woodcut  of  a  coat-of-arms  on  back  of  title-leaf.  Folio, 
Black-Letter,  red  levant  morocco,  gilt  edges. 

Imprinted  at  London  by  Wyllyam  Myddylton  [1525]. 
Remarkably  large  copy  of  the  first  book  of  Froissart's  Chronicles. 
Lower  comer  of  margin  of  title-leaf  repaired.     More  or  less  worm- 
holes  in  all  the  leaves.     Scarce. 

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Goldsmith,  Oliver.     The  Memoirs  of  a  Protestant,  Con- 
r  J^  demned  to  the  Galleys  of  France,  For  His  Religion.     Written  by 

Himself.     2  volumes,  1 2  mo,  original  calf. 

London,  printed  for  R.  Griffiths  and  E.  Dilly,  1758. 
First  Edition.     Scarce. 
This  is  Goldsmith's  first  publication. 


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Goldsmith,  Oliver,     An  Enquiry  Into  the  Present  State 

of  Polite  Learning  in  Europe.    8vo,  original  calf,  red  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  R.  and  J.  Dodsley,  1759. 

First  Edition.     This  work  was  much  altered  in  the  second  edition, 

published  in  1774,  and  one  entire  chapter  omitted. 


134 
Goldsmith,    Oliver.      The    Citizen    of    the    World;    or 

Letters  from  a  Chinese  Philosopher,  Residing  in  London,  To  His 

f^/i  Friends  in  the  East.     2  volumes,  1 2mo,  sprinkled  calf,  gilt  edges, 

by  Riviere.  London,  Printed  for  the  Author,  1762. 

First  Edition.     Scarce.     Fine  copy.     Armorial  book-plate  in  each 

volume. 

135 
Goldsmith,   Oliver.      The    Life    of   Richard    Nash,   Of 
yC'  Bath,    Esq;    Extracted   principally  from  His  Original  Papers. 

Engraved  frontispiece  portrait  by  Walker.     8vo,  original  calf,  re- 
backed.     London,  Printed  for  J.  Newbery  and  W.  Frederick,  1762. 
First  Edition. 

136 
Goldsmith,    Oliver.      The   Life  of  Richard   Nash,  Esq; 
X  ^  Late  Master  of  the  Ceremonies  at  Bath.     Engraved  frontispiece 

^  d^,  portrait  by  Walker.     8vo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

London,  Printed  for  J.  Newberry, 

W.  Frederick,  and  G.  Faulkener,  1762. 

Second  Edition.     Large  Paper  copy.     Very  rare  in  this  state. 

Edmund  Gosse,  in  his  "Gossip  in  a  Library,"  London,  1891,  says 

of  this  book :    **  There  are  cases,  not  known  to  every  collector  of  books, 

where  it  is  not  the  first  which  is  the  really  desirable  edition  of  a  work, 

but  the  second.     One  of  these  rare  examples  of  the  exception  which 

proves  the  rule  is  the  second  edition  of  Goldsmith's  Life  of  Beau 

Nash.    Disappointment  awaits  him  who  possesses  only  the  first;  it  is 

in  the  second  that  the  best  things  originally  appeared.  .  •  .  The  wise 

bibliophile,  therefore,  will  eschew  it  [the  first  edition],  and  will  try 

to  get  the  second  edition  issued  a  few  weeks  later  in  the  same  year. " 

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Goldsmith,     Ohyer.    Essays.     By   Mr.    Goldsmith.     i2mo, 
original  calf.  London,  Printed  for  W.  Griffin,  1765. 

This  recently  discovered  edition  is  probably  an  earlier  issue  than 
the  one  next  described.  The  title  is  printed  from  type ;  the  print  is 
small,  and  the  preface  occupies  2  pages,  the  Essays  187  pages. 

Book-plate  of  Rev,  James  Trail. 

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Goldsmith,    Oliver.     Essays.     By    Mr.    Goldsmith.     i2mo, 
original  calf.  London,  Printed  for  W.  Griffin,  1765. 

This  is  generally  called  the  first  edition.  The  title-page  is  en- 
graved, and  has  a  vignette  by  Taylor.  The  preface  occupies  7 
pages ;  the  Essays  236  pages,  followed  by  a  two-page  list  of  books 
published  by  W.  Griffin.  The  type  is  much  larger  than  that  of  the 
preceding  copy. 

139 

Goldsmith,   Oliver.      The   Beauties   of   English   Poesy. 

Selected  by  Oliver  Goldsmith,  2  volumes,  12  mo,  original  calf. 
London,  Printed  for  William  Griffin,  1767. 

First  Edition. 

Pages  265  to  269  of  volume  i  are  incorrectly  numbered  165  to  169 
as  in  all  copies  of  the  first  edition. 

140 
Goldsmith,  Oliver.     The  Deserted  Village,  A  Poem.    By 
Dr  Goldsmith.    Small  8vo,  brown  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the 
rough.  London,  Printed  for  W.  Griffin,  1770. 

There  were  six  4to  editions  of  The  Deserted  Village  published 
by  Griffin  in  1770,  the  first  being  published  on  May  26  of  that  year. 
With  the  exception  of  the  first  they  all  bear  on  the  title  or  half-title 
a  statement  as  to  the  edition.  It  was  not  until  the  Crampon  sale  in 
1896  that  there  seems  to  have  been  any  record  made  of  any  edition 
in  another  form  by  the  same  printer,  issued  that  same  year.  In  the 
catalogue  of  that  sale  a  copy  was  offered  containing  the  following  note : 

"This  is  the  genuine  first  privately  printed  edition  before  the  4to 
of  May,  1770.     It  is  the  only  copy  known," 

It  brought  ;^25,  an  inadequate  price,  it  would  seem,  in  the  face  of 
the  fact  that  the  first  4to  edition  turns  up  frequently,  and  has 
brought  as  high  as  £\^. 

Since  the  Crampon  sale  a  few  other  copies  have  been  discovered. 
This  is  the  first  copy  to  be  offered  at  public  sale  in  America,  though 
the  first  4to  edition  has  several  times  appeared,  Mr.  Frederick- 
son's  copy  having  brought  $140.00  at  the  sale  of  his  library  in  1897. 

Notwithstanding    the  great  rarity  of  the  book  in  this  small  8vo 

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(or  rather  i2mo)  form,  it  has  been  recently  discovered  that  there 
were  three  distinct  editions  of  the  little  book  issued  in  1770,  the 
wording  of  the  title-page  being  identical  in  all.  What  may  be  called 
the  first  of  these  three  is  most  easily  identified  by  the  misprint  in  line 
37  of  the  poem,  which  there  reads 

"Amidst  thy  bowers  the  tyrant's  head  is  seen." 
In  all  later  editions  of  the  poem,  this  line  is  corrected  to  read 

"Amidst  thy  bowers  the  tyrant's  hand  is  seen." 
Of  this  earliest  variety  only  two  copies  have  been  discovered,  one, 
the  Crampon  copy,  in  a  private  collection  in  England,  the  other 
now  in  America. 

The  variety  here  offered  is  textually  exactly  the  same  as  the  first 
quarto,  though  it  differs  from  it  in  many  places  in  punctuation  or 
spelling.  It  seems  to  be  the  second  8vo  edition,  and  is  the  only  copy 
known  of  that  edition.  Of  the  third  8vo  edition,  three  copies  at 
least  are  in  America. 

Except  for  the  one  word  noted  above,  and  three  or  four  palpable 
misprints,  these  three  editions  all  agree  textually  with  the  first  4to 
edition.  Several  words  were  changed  in  the  second  4to  edition, 
which  is  plainly  called  "Second  Edition":  In  line  67  "luxury"  was 
changed  to  "oppulence";  in  line  loi  "blest  is  he"  was  changed  to 
"happy  he";  in  line  in  "sinks"  is  altered  to  "bends";  in  line 
184  "ready"  becomes  "steady";  and  in  line  315  "each  joy"  is 
changed  to  "those  joys."  As  the  three  8vo  editions  have  the 
text  of  the  first  4to  and  contain  no  one  of  these  changes,  they 
must  have  been  issued  before  the  second  4to;  and  as  the  three 
8vos  in  their  punctuation  and  spelling  form  one  class,  while  the 
early  4tos  form  another  class,  it  seems  probable  that  Jill  three  8vo 
editions  antedate  all  of  the  4tos. 

Facsimile  of  title-page  on  preceding  page. 

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^^        Goldsmith,  Oliver.    The  Poetical  and  Dramatic  Works 
Z^  of  Oliver  Goldsmith,  M.  B.      Now  first  CoUected.      With 

an  Account  of   the  life  and  writings  of   the  Author.      Frontis- 
piece portrait.     2  volumes,  8vo,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  by  H.  Goldney,  1780. 
First  Collected  Edition. 

142 
GoMERSALL,   RoBERT.     Pocms,   The   Tragedy   of  Sforza, 
and  The  Levites  Revenge.     With  the  two  engraved  frontis- 
pieces  by   Cecil.     Svo,   light   brown   straight-grained   morocco, 
edge  gilt  on  the  rough. 

London,  Printed  by  M.  F.  for  John  Harriot,  1633. 
First  Edition  of  the  Poems;    Second  Edition  of  Sforza  and  The 
Levites  Revenge. 

There  are  separate  title-pages  to  the  3  parts.     Some  headlines  cut 
into.     Scarce. 

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gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut.     London,  William  Heinemann,  1891, 
First  Edition. 

144 
_,         GossE,  Edmund.     Questions  at  Issue.     i2mo,  original  cloth, 
^  —  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut.     London,  William  Heinemann,  1893. 

First  Edition. 

145 
GossE,  Edmund.     A   Catalogue   of   a    Portion  of  the  Library 
of  Edmund  Gosse.     By  R.  J.  Lister.     Illustrated  with  facsimiles 
of  MS.  title-pages,  old  prints,  etc.     4to,  original  cloth,  silk  ties, 
uncut.  Privately  Printed  for  the 

Subscribers  at  the  Ballantyne  Press,  London,  1893. 
On  the  fly-leaf  is  this  statement:    "The  impression  of  this  book  is 
limited  to  sixty-five  copies.     No.   52."   followed  by  the  autograph 
signature  "Edmund  Gosse." 
Fine  copy.     Very  scarce. 

146 

Goui/D,    Robert.      Poems    Chiefly   Consisting   of    Satyrs    and 

Satyrical   Epistles.      Licensed   Jan.    8th,    i68f.      8vo,    original 

calf,  rebacked.  London,  Printed,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  most 

Booksellers  in  London  and  Westminster,  1689. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Scarce. 

147 
GowER,  xToHN.     Jo  Gower  de  confessione  Amantis.     Folio, 

^'/  Gothic  type,  old  calf,  binding  broken. 

'  Imprinted  at  London  by  Thomas  Berthelette,  1532. 

Second  Edition.     A  remarkably  large  copy  in  very  fine  condition. 
Wants  two  leaves  of  the  table:  aa4  and  aa5. 
Rare.     The  first  edition  was  printed  by  Caxton  in  1483. 


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SZt  Gray,  Thomas.     Odes  by  Mr.  Gray.     Vignette  on  title.     Square 
folio,  mottled  calf  extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 

Printed  at  Strawberry-Hill,  For  R.  and  J.  Dodsley,  1757. 
First  Edition. 

149 
Gray,  Thomas.      Poems  by  Mr.  Gray.     8vo,  yellow  calf,  yellow 
><^.  edges,  by  Zaehnsdorf.         London,  Printed  for  J.  Dodsley,  1768. 

Fine  copy  of  the  First  Collected  Edition. 

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Gray,  Thomas.     Poems  by  Mr.  Gray.     Large  4to. 
XZ  Glasgow,  Printed  by  Robert  and  Andrew  Foulis,  1768. 

Elegia  Inglese  by  Tommaso  Gray,  sopra  Un  Cimitero  Cam- 
pestre  Transportata  in  verso  Italiano  da  Giuseppe  Torelli  Ver- 
onese.    Large  4to.  Parma,  Co'  Tipi  Bodoniani,  1793. 

These  two  books  are  bound  together  in  old  half  calf.  The  Glas- 
gow edition  of  the  Poems  was  printed  the  same  year  as  the  first  Lon- 
don edition.  The  Parma  edition  of  the  Elegy  has  the  English  text, 
as  well  as  the  Italian  version.  Both  books  are  beautiful  examples 
of  printing,  and  both  are  scarce  editions. 

Book-plate  of  Peter  Forbes. 

151 

Habington,   William.      Castara:    Frontispiece  by   Marshall. 

i2mo,   red   morocco   extra,    edges   gilt   on  the   rough,   by    De 

Coverley.  London,  Printed  by  T.  Cotes  for  Will.  Cook,  1 640. 

The  third  but  first  complete  edition,  as  the  third  part  here  appears 
for  the  first  time. 

Fine  copy.     Lower  edges  of  a  few  leaves  uncut.     Scarce. 

152 

^  /  Hall,  John.     Poems.     Small  8vo,  polished  calf,  gilt  edges,  by 

'  Bedford.  Cambridge,  Printed  by  Roger  Daniel,  1646. 

Fine  copy  of  the  scarce  First  Edition.  Opposite  page  68  is  an- 
other title,  "The  Second  Booke  of  Divine  Poems.  By  J.  H.,"  which 
bears  the  date  1647,  as  in  all  copies  of  the  first  edition. 

SC^  Hamilton,  Walter.  French  Book-Plates.  A  Handbook 
for  Ex-Libris  Collectors.  Illustrated.  4to,  original  cloth,  gilt 
top.  London,  George  Bell  &  Sons,  1892. 

First  Edition. 


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Haydon,  Frederic  W.     Benjamin  Robert  Haydon:   Cor- 
respondence and  Table-Talk.     With  facsimile  illustrations 
from  his  journals.     2  volumes,  8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Chatto  and  Windus,  1876. 
First  Edition. 

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Hall,  Joseph,  Bishop  of  Norwich.  Virgidemiarvm  Sixe 
Bookes.  First  three  Bookes,  Of  Tooth-lesse  Satyrs,  i.  Poeticall. 
2.  Academicall.     3.   Morall. 

London,  Printed  by  lohn  Harison,  for  Robert  Dexter,  1602. 

The  Three  Last  Bookes.  Of  byting  Satyres.  Corrected 
and  amended  with  some  Additions,  by  I,  H. 

Imprinted  at  London  for  Robert  Dexter,  1599. 

Certaine  Worthye  Manvscript  Poems  of  great  Anti- 
quitie  Reserued  long  in  the  Studie  of  a  Northfolke  Gentleman. 
And  now  first  published  By  J.  S.  That  stately  tragedy  of  Guistard 
and  Sismond.  The  Northern  Mothers  Blessing.  The  Way  to 
Thrifte.  Imprinted  at  London  for  R.  D.,  1597. 

In  one  volume.     Small  8vo,  brown  calf,  rough  edges. 

London,  1 597-1602. 
Rare.    A  portrait  of  Bishop  Hall  is  inserted ;   none  belongs  with  the 
book  as  issued. 

156 
yj-      Heber,    John.      A    Catalogue   of    Heber's   Collection    of 
Early  English  Poetry.     With  prices  and  purchasers'  names. 
8vo,  original  boards,  leather  back,  paper  label,  uncut. 

London,  Edward  Lumley  [1834]. 

Herbert,    George.      The    Temple.     Sacred    Poems    and 

S7f  Private  Ejaculations.     By  Mr.  George  Herbert,  late  Oratour 

of  the  Universitie  of  Cambridge.      1 2mo,  original  calf,  red  edges. 

Printed  by  T.  Buck  and  R.  Daniel,  printers  to  the 

Universitie  of  Cambridge,  1633. 

Second  Edition.     Very  fine,  large,  and  thick  copy  of  this  scarce 

book. 

158 
Herbert,  George.    The  Temple.    Sacred  Poems  and  Pri- 
r-  vate  Ejaculations.      By  Mr.  George  Herbert,  late  Oratovir  of 

the  Universitie  of  Cambridge.  i2mo,  blue  crushed  levant 
morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the  rough,  by  Bedford. 

Printed  by  T.  Buck  and  R.  Daniel,  printers  to  the 

Universitie  of  Cambridge,  1633, 

Second  Edition,  and  a  fine  copy.     The  title-page  differs  from  that 

of  the  preceding  copy  by  the  addition  of  a  line  below  the  imprint: 

"And  are  to  be  sold  by  Fr.  Green." 

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Herbert,  George.     Herbert's  Remains.     Or,  Sundry  Pieces 

ATf  Of  that  sweet  Singer  of  the  Temple,  Mr  George  Herbert.    1 2mo, 

dark  blue  crushed  levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the  rough,  by 

Riviere.  London,  Printed  for  Timothy  Garth  wait,  1652. 

First  Edition.     Scarce.     Very  fine  copy. 

This  volume  contains  the  second  title,  **  A  Priest  to  the  Temple," 
often  lacking.  Bound  in  with  this  copy  is  Jacula  Prudentum,  or 
Outlandish  Proverbs,  1651. 

160 
Heyrick,  Thomas.    The   Submarine  Voyage.    A   Pindaric 
Poem  in  Four  Parts.     By  Tho.  Heyrick,  M.  A.    4to,  old  red  calf 
extra,  gilt  edges.  Cambridge,  Printed  by 

John  Hayes,  for  the  Author,  1691. 
First  Edition. 

Evidently  extracted  from  Heyrick's  "Miscellany  Poems"  and 
specially  bound. 

161 

^^  Heywood,  John.    The  Works  of  lohn   Heiwood  Newlie 

j^  Imprinted.     Namelie,  A  Dialogue,  wherein  are  pleasanthe  con- 

triued  the  number  of  all  the  effectuall  Prouerbs  in  our  English 

tongue :  Compact  in  a  matter  concerning  two  maner  of  Marriages. 

Together  with  three  hundred  Epigrammes  upon  three  hundred 

Prouerbes.      Also  a  foiuth,  fifth  and  sixth  hundreth  of   other 

very   pleasant,   pithie   and   ingenious    Epigrammes.     4to,   green 

straight-grain  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges. 

At  London,  Imprinted  by  Felix  Kingston,  1598. 

Fifth  Edition.  Printed  in  black-letter.  There  are  four  separate 
titles  besides  the  general  title. 

Large  copy.     Margfins  of  several  leaves  mended. 
Book-plate  of  Baron  Bolland. 


J^o. 


162 
Heywood,  Thomas.  Troia  Britanica ;  or,  Great  Britaines 
Troy.  A  Poem  Deuided  into  XVII.  seueral  Cantons,  inter- 
mixed with  many  pleasant  Poetical  Tales.  Concluding  with  an 
Vniuersall  Chronicle  from  the  Creation,  untill  these  present  Times. 
Small  foho,  buff  polished  calf,  rebacked. 

London,  Printed  by  W.  Jaggard,  1609. 
First  Edition,  large  copy.     Small  piece  of  upper  corner  of  title- 
leaf,  and  top  margin  of  last  leaf  repaired. 

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Heywood,   Thomas.      Tunaikeion:    or,    Nine    Bookes    of 
J7f  Various  History  Concerninge  Women;    Inscribed  by  y<= 

names  of  ye  Nine  Muses.  Written  by  Thorn :  Heywoode.  En- 
graved title.     Small  folio,  old  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  Adam  Islip,  1624. 
First  Edition.     Very  fine  copy.     The  binding  is  an  interesting 
example  of  early  English  work. 

164 
Heywood,  Thomas.   The  Hierarchie  of  the  blessed  Angelis. 

Their  Names,  orders,  and  Offices.  The  Fall  of  Lucifer  with  his 
Angelis.  Written  by  Tho :  Heywood.  Brilliant  impressions  of 
the  engraved  title  and  other  plates,  engraved  by  Droeshout, 
Cecill,  Marshall,  etc.     Folio,  original  calf,  red  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  Adam  Islip,  1635. 
First  Edition.     Fine,  tall,  clean  copy  of  this  scarce  volume,  with 
the  leaf  of  license  before  the  title  dated  "  Novemb.  7,  1634." 

165 
-.    HiLDEBURN,  Charles  R.     A  Century  of  Printing.     The 
—  Issues  of  the  Press  in  Pennsylvania  1865-1784.      2  vol- 

umes, 8vo,  original  cloth,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Philadelphia,  1885. 
This  is  Number  36  of  300  copies  privately  printed. 

166 
HoccLEVE,  Thomas.     Poems  by  Thomas  Hoccleve,  Never 
Before  Printed:   Selected  from  a  MS.   in  the  possession  of 
George   Mason.     With   a   Preface,   Notes   and   Glossary.     4to, 
stitched,  uncut.  London,  Printed  by 

C.  Roworth,  for  Leigh  and  Sotheby,  1796. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

167 
Homer.     The  Whole  Works  of  Homer:  Prince  of  Poetts 
In  His  Iliads,  and  Odysses.     Translated  according  to  the 
Greeke.     By  Geo:  Chapman.     Tall  4to,  original  stamped  calf, 
rebacked,  red  edges. 

At  London,  printed  for  Nathaniell  Butler  [about  16 16]. 

This  was  Coleridge' s  copy,  and  contains  numerous  critical  notes  in 

his  handwriting  and  his  signature  in  three  places.     In  one  note 

Coleridge   says:    "Chapman  in  his  moral  heroic  verse,  as  in  this 

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Dedication  and  the  prefatory  Sonnets  to  his  Odyssey  stands  above 
Jonson,  more  dignity,  more  lustre,  and  equal  strength ;  but  not  mid- 
way quite  between  him  and  the  Sonnets  of  Milton.  I  do  not  know, 
whether  I  give  him  the  higher  praise,  in  that  he  reminds  me  of  B. 
Jonson  with  a  sense  of  his  superior  excellence,  or  that  he  brings 
Milton's  memory,  notwithstanding  his  inferiority." 

Inserted  is  a  long  letter — one  of  the  most  interesting  literary  let- 
ters in  existence — which  was  sent  by  Coleridge,  with  this  book,  to 
Miss  Hutchinson,  the  sister  of  Wordsworth's  wife,  Mary.  On  the 
death  of  Miss  Hutchinson  the  volume  passed  into  the  possession  of 
Wordsworth. 

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Howard,  Robert.     Poems.     By   S"^  Robert   Howard.     Small 
JZ/)  8vo,  original  calf.         London,  Printed  for  H.  Herringman,  1660. 

First  Edition.  With  the  half-title  to  "The  Blind  Lady"  between 
pages  28  and  29.  This  half-title  is  not  mentioned  by  Hazlitt  in  his 
collation  of  the  book. 

Signatures  A6-7-8  contain  a  poem  to  Harvard  by  Dryden. 

Book-plate  of  G.  W.  F.  Gregor. 

A  few  head-lines  cut  into,  but  a  good  copy.     Scarce. 

169 
/    r-Tj       Irving,   Washington.    Five   Volumes   of  Scott's  Poems 
/q    ->^  from  the  Library  of  Washington  Irving.     24mo,    old 

calf,  marbled  edges. 

Marmion.  Philadelphia,  1809. 

With  autograph  signature  "Washington  Irving"  on  fly-leaf. 

The  Lay  of  the  Last  MinstreL  Philadelphia,  18 10. 

With  autograph  signature  "Washington  Irving"  on  title-page. 
Ballads  and  Lyrical  Pieces.  Baltimore,  181 1. 

Minstrelsy  of  the  Scottish  Border.  Philadelphia,  181 3. 
Rokeby.  Philadelphia,  18 13. 

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//\  Irving,  Washington.     Voyages  and  Discoveries  of  the 

^       '  Companions  of  Columbus.    8vo,  original  boards,  cloth  back, 

paper  label,  uncut.  Philadelphia,  Carey  &  Lea,  1831. 

First  Edition. 

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Irving,   Washington.      The   Alhambra:   A   Series  of   Tales 

and  Sketches  of  the  Moors  and  Spaniards.     By  the  Author  of 

the  Sketch  Book.     2  volumes,  1 2  mo,  original  boards,  cloth  backs, 

paper  labels,  uncut.  Philadelphia,  Carey  &  Lea,  1832. 

First  Edition. 

172 
Johnson,  John.     Typographia,  or  the  Printers  Instruc- 
/^  tor:  Including  an  Account  of   the  Origin  of  Printing.     2  vol- 

umes, 8vo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

Published  by  Messrs.  Longman,  Hurst, 
Rees,  Orme,  Browne  &  Greene,  London,  1824. 
First  Edition.  This  work  was  originally  issued  in  three  sizes. 
Of  the  copies  printed  on  "largest  paper"  only  36  were  made,  and 
published  at  £if  4s.  each ;  the  present  copy  is  one  of  these.  The 
portraits  of  Caxton  and  of  the  Author,  and  the  title-page,  are  on 
India  paper. 

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Johnson,  Samuel.     The  Plan  of  a  Dictionary  of  the  Eng- 
<JlJ-  lish    Language;   Addressed   to   the  Right  Honorable    Philip 

Dormer,  Earl  of  Chesterfield;  One  of  His  Majesty's  Principal 
Secretaries  of  State.     4to,  paper  covers,  uncut, 

London,  Printed  for  J.  and  P.  Knap  ton,  T.  Longman  and 

T.  Shewell,  C.  Hatch,  A.  Millar,  and  R.  Dodsley,  1747. 

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and  Illustrated  in  their  Different  Significations  by  Examples  from 
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guage, and  An  EngUsh  Grammar.     By  Samuel  Johnson,  A.  M. 
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R.  and  J.  Dodsley  and  W.  Johnston,  1759. 

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Johnson,  Samuel.     A  Journey  to  the  Western  Islands  of 

Scotland.     8vo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

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Keats,  John.    Poems.   Small  8vo,  black  straight-grained  morocco, 

ijw  0  f  gilt  edges.  London,  Printed  for  C.  and  J.  Oilier,  181 7. 

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read  this  with  pleasure  and  ease." 

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Keats,  John.     Endymion:   A  Poetic  Romance.     8vo,  original 
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Keats,  John.    The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats.    Por- 
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4  iLS"^      Keats,  John.    Life,   Letters,   and   Literary  Remains   of 
^  John  Keats.     Edited  by  Richard  Monckton  Milnes.      Portrait 

and  facsimile.     2  volumes,  i2mo,  original  cloth,  uncut. 

London,  Edward  Moxon,  1848. 
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Keats,  John.    Life,  Letters,   and   Literary  Remains   of 
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i2mo,  original  cloth.  New  York,  George  P.  Putnam,  1848. 

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^  Af  Keats,  John.    The  Poetical  Works  of  John   Keats.    A 
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London,  Edward  Moxon,  1851. 
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184 
Keats,  John.     The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats  With  a 
^  2~  t  Memoir  By  Richard  Monckton  Milnes,     Illustrated  by  1 20  de- 

signs, drawn  on  wood  by  George  Scharf.  4to,  original  cloth, 
imcut.  London,  Edward  Moxon,  1854. 

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Keats,  John.    Letters  of  John  Keats  to  Fanny  Brawne 

jTY  Written  in  the  years  1819  and  1820  and  now  given  from  the 

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ton Forman.  Two  portraits  and  facsimile.  1 6mo,  original  cloth, 
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Keats,  John.     The  Letters  and  Poems  of  John   Keats. 

■^  -£^  Edited  by  Jno.  Gilmer  Speed.     Portraits.     3  volumes,  8vo,  orig- 

inal boards,  uncut.  New  York,  Dodd,  Mead,  &  Co.,  1883. 

First  Issue  of  this  Edition. 

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Vinne.     Number  23. 

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Keats,  John.     The  Poetical  Works  and  Other  Writings 
yj^  ^  of  John  Keats  Now  first  brought  together  including  Poems 

and  Numerous  Letters  not  before  published.  Edited  with  Notes 
and  Appendices  by  Harry  Buxton  Forman.  Portraits,  engrav- 
ings, and  facsimiles.     4  volumes,  8vo,  original  cloth,  imcut, 

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Keats,  John.    The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats.    Edited 
by  William  T.   Arnold.     Portrait.     8vo,  original  paper  covers, 
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Keats,  John.     The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats  Re- 

2  '—  printed  from  the  Original  Editions,  with  notes  by  Francis  T. 

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190 
Keats,  John.     Keats.     By  Sidney  Colvin.     1 2mo,  original  cloth, 
/J!,  paper  label,  uncut.  London,  Macmillan  and  Co.,  1887. 

First  Edition. 

191 
Keats,   John.     Life  of  John    Keats.     By  William    Michael 
.  Stf  Rossetti.     8vo,  original  cloth,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

^   ~'  London,  Walter  Scott,  1887. 

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193 
Keats,  John.    The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Keats  Given 

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London,  Reeves  &  Turner,  1895. 
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/  'ij~'       Keats,  John.     The  Letters  of  John  Keats.     Complete  Re- 
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and  twenty-fovu-  contemporary  Views  of  Places  Visited  by  Keats. 
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7     2  i-    Keats,  John.    Odes  Sonnets  and  Lyrics  of  John  Keats. 
—  With  a  portrait  of  Keats  reproduced  from  a  drawing  by  Severn 

and  here  first  published.     8vo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut. 

Daniel,  Oxford,  1895. 
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196 
Keats,  John.     The  Poems  of  John  Keats  Edited  by  G. 
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trait.    2  volumes,  i2mo,  original  cloth,  vellum  paper  backs,  gilt 
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j^       Keble,  John.    The  Christian  Year.     2  volumes,  i2mo,  orig- 
- —  inal  cloth,  paper  labels.         Oxford,  Printed  by  W.  Baxter,  1827. 

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^  /-       Keble,  John.     The  Christian  Year :  Thoughts  in  Verse  for 
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cloth,  paper  label.  Philadelphia,  1834. 

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The   Story   of  the  Glittering  Plain.     Which  has  been  also 

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Poems  by  the  Way.     Written  by  William  Morris.     Small  4to. 
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The  Nature  of  Gothic  A  Chapter  of  the  Stones  of  Venice.  By 
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The    Golden   Legend.     By  Jacobus    de    Voragine.     Translated 

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The  Recuyell  of  the  Historyes  of  Troye.    By  Raoul  Lefevre. 
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ling. 2  volumes.  Large  4to.  Troy  type,  with  table  of  chapters 
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Bihlia  Innocentium:  Being  the  Story  of  God's  Chosen  People 
Before  the  Coming  of  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  upon  Earth,  written 
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The  History  of  Reynard  the  Foxe  by  William  Caxton. 
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glossary  in  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red.  Woodcut  title. 
Bound  in  limp  vellum.  1892. 

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The    Poems    of    William    Shakespeare,    printed    after   the 

_^         original   copies   of    Venus   and   Adonis,    1593.     The    Rape   of 

'/  ^  -—  Lucrece,  1594.    Sonnets,  1609.    The  Lover's  Complaint.    Edited 

by  F.  S.  Ellis.     8vo.     Golden  type,  in  black  and  red.     Bound  in 

limp  vellum.  1893. 

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News  from  Nowhere:  or,  An  Epoch  of  Rest,  being  Some 
Chapters  from  a  Utopian  Romance,  by  William  Morris.  Svo. 
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211 

The  Order  of  Chivalry.  Translated  from  the  French  by 
William  Caxton  and  reprinted  from  his  edition  of  1484.  Edited 
by  F.  S.  Ellis.  And  L'Ordene  de  Chevalerie,  with  translation  by 
William  Morris.  Small  4to.  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red. 
Woodcut  designed  by  Sir  Edward  Bimie-Jones.  Bound  in  limp 
vellum.  1893. 

225  copies.     This  was  the  last  Kelmscott  book  printed  in  small 
4to,  and  the  first  book  printed  in  Chaucer  type. 

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The    Life  of    Thomas    Wolsey,  Cardinal  Archbishop   of 

York.     Written  by  George  Cavendish.      Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis 

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The  History   of  Godefrey  of  Boloyne   and  of    the   Con- 

^-yj        quest  of  Iherusalem.     Reprinted  from  Caxton's  edition  of 

^X.     —  1 48 1.    Edited  by  H.  Halliday  Sparling.    Large  4to.    Troy  type, 

with  list  of  chapter  headings  and  glossary  in  Chaucer  type,  in 

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was  the  first  book  published  and  sold  at  the  Kelmscott  Press. 

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liam Morris.     Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.      8vo.    Chaucer  type,  with 
the  title  in  Troy  type,  in  black  and  red.     Boimd  in  limp  vellum. 

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Maud,  A  Monodrama.   By  Alfred  Lord  Tennyson.   8vo.   Golden 

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Gothic  Architecture:   A  Lecture  for  the  Arts  and  Crafts  Ex- 

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Sidonia  the   Sorceress.     By  William    Meinhold  translated  by 
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black  and  red.     Bovmd  in  limp  vellum.  1893. 

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i6mo.     Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red.    Woodcut  title.     Bound 

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The    Story  of   the    Glittering    Plain  which   has   been    also 

— ,  called  The  Land  of  Living  Men  or  The  Acre  of  the  Undying. 

*  Written  by  William  Morris.     Large  4to.     Troy  type,  with  list  of 

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Of   the   Friendship    of    Amis    and    Amile.      Done   out   of 
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Sonnets    and    Lyrical    Poems    By    Dante    Gabriel    Rossetti. 
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"  limp  vellum.  1894. 

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The    Poems    of  John    Keats.     Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.     8vo. 

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Atalanta   in  Calydon:    A    Tragedy,     By    Algernon    Charles 

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The  Wood   Beyond   the   World.     By   William   Morris.     8vo. 

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The   Book   of   Wisdom   and   Lies.      A  book   of  Traditional 

^  I  Stories  from  Georgia  in  Asia.      Translated  by  Oliver  Wardrop 

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in  black  and  red.    Woodcut  title.    Bound  in  limp  vellum.     1894. 

250  copies.     The  arms  of  Georgia,  consisting  of  the  Holy  Coat, 
appear  in  the  woodcut  title  of  this  book. 


228 
The  Poetical   Works   of   Percy   Bysshe   Shelley.     Edited 
y-"^  00  by  F.  S.  Ellis.     3  volmnes,  8vo.     Golden  type.     Bound  in  hmp 

'  vellimi.  1894-95. 

250  copies. 

229 

.    ^-        Psalmi    Penitentiales.    An   English    rhymed    version    of    the 

A-  '^  •  Seven  Penitential  Psahns.     Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.    8vo.    Chaucer 

type,  in  black  and  red.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1894. 

300  copies.    The  half-border  on  page  34  appears  for  the  first  time 
in  this  book. 

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Epistola  de  Contemptu  Mundi  di  Frate  Hieronymo  da  Fer- 
rara  Dell  Ordine  de  Frati  Predicatori  la  Quale  Manda  ad  Elena 
Buonaccorsi  Sua  Madre,  per  Consolarla  Delia  Morte  del  Fratello, 
Suo  Zio.  Edited  by  Charles  Fairfax  Murray  from  the  original 
autograph  letter.  8vo.  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red.  Wood- 
cut title.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1894. 

150  copies.  This  little  book  was  printed  for  Mr.  C.  Fairfax  Mur- 
ray, the  owner  of  the  manuscript,  and  was  not  for  sale  in  the  ordi- 
nary way. 


231 

The  Tale  of  Beowulf.     Done  out  of  the  Old  English  tongue 

by  William   Morris  and  A.  J.  Wyatt.     Large  4to.     Troy  type, 

with  argiunent,  side-notes,  list  of  persons  and  places,  and  glossary 

in  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red.     Woodcut  title.     Bound  in 

limp  vellum.  1895. 

300  copies.     The  borders  of  this  book  were  used  only  once  again, 
in  the  Jason. 


Syr  Perecyvelle  of  Gales.  Overseen  by  F.  S.  Ellis,  after  the 
edition  edited  by  J.  O.  Halliwell  from  the  Thornton  MS.  in  the 
Library  of  Lincoln  Cathedral.  Svo.  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and 
red.  Woodcut  designed  by  Sir  E.  Burne-Jones.  Bound  in  hmp 
vellum.  1895. 

350  copies.     This  book  is  the  first  of  the  series  to  which  Sire  De- 
grevaunt  and  Syr  Ysambrace  belong. 


233 

The  Life  and  Death  of  Jason,  A  Poem.  By  William  Mor- 
ris. Large  4to.  Troy  type,  with  a  few  words  in  Chaucer  type, 
in  black  and  red.  2  woodcuts  designed  by  Sir  E.  Bume-Jones, 
and  engraved  on  wood  by  W.  Spielmeyer.    Bound  in  limp  vellum. 

1895. 
200  copies. 

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Child  Christopher  and  Goldilind  the  Fair.  By  William 
Morris.  2  volumes,  i6mo,  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red. 
Woodcut  title.     Bound  in  half  hoUand.  1895. 

600  copies.     The  borders  designed  for  this  book  were  only  used 
once  ag^in,  in  Hand  and  Soul. 


Hand  and  Soul.  By  Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti.  Reprinted  from 
The  Germ.  i6mo.  Golden  type,  in  black  and  red.  Bound  in 
stiff  vellum.  1895. 

225  copies  for  sale  in  England  and  300  copies  for  America.     The 
present  copy  is  one  of  those  made  for  England. 


236 

Poems   Chosen   Out   of   the   Works   of   Robert   Herrick. 

Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.      8vo.      Golden  type,  in  black  and  red. 
Woodcut  title.     Bound  in  limp  vellum.  1895. 

250  copies. 

237 

Poems   Chosen    out   of    the   Works   of    Samuel   Taylor 

Coleridge.     Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.    8vo.    Golden  type,  in  black 

and  red.     Bound  in  limp  vellum.  1 896. 

300  copies.  This  book  is  the  last  of  the  series  to  which  Tenny- 
son's Maud  and  the  Poems  of  Rossetti,  Keats,  Shelley,  and  Herrick 
belong. 


The  Well  at  the  World's  End.     By  William  Morris.     Large 

jP^^  —        4to.      Double  columns.      Chaucer  tj'pe,  in  black  and  red.      4 

woodcuts  designed  by  Sir  E.  Bvune-Jones.    Bound  in  limp  vellum. 

1896. 

350  copies.     The  eight  borders  and  the  six  diflferent  ornaments 
between  the  columns  appear  here  for  the  first  time. 

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The  Works   of    Geoffrey   Chaucer.      Edited  by  F.   S.   Ellis. 
Folio.     Chaucer  type,  with  headings  to  the  longer  poems  in  Troy 
type,  in  black  and  red.     Woodcut  title  and  87  woodcut  illustra- 
tions designed  by  Sir  E,  Bume-Jones.     Bound  in  half  hoUand. 

1896. 

425  copies.  This  book  is  by  far  the  most  important  achievement 
of  the  Kelmscott  Press.  Besides  the  87  woodcuts  by  Burne-Jones 
the  volume  contains  a  woodcut  title,  14  large  borders,  18  different 
frames  around  the  illustrations,  and  26  large  initial  words  designed 
for  the  book  by  William  Morris. 


240 

The  Earthly  Paradise.    By  William  Morris.    8  volumes,  medium 

4to.     Golden  t5rpe,  in  black  and  red.     Woodcut  title.     Bound 

in  limp  vellum.  1896-97. 

225  copies.  This  was  the  first  book  printed  on  the  paper  with  the 
apple  water-mark.  None  of  the  10  borders  appear  in  any  other 
book.  The  4  different  half-borders  round  the  poems  to  the  months 
are  not  used  elsewhere. 


241 

Laudes  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis.     Latin  Poems  taken  from 

a  Psalter  written   in   England  about  A.   D.    1220,     Edited  by 

S.  C.  Cockerell.     Large  4to.     Troy  type,  in  black,  red,  and  blue. 

Bound  in  half  hoUand.  1896. 

250  copies.     This  was  the  first  book  printed  at   the  Kelmscott 
Press  in  3  colors. 


242 
The  Floure  and  the   Leafe,  &  the    Boke  of  Cupide,  God 
of  Love,  or  the  Cuckow  and  the  Nightingale.     Edited 
by  F.  S.  Ellis.     Medium  4to.     Troy  type,  with  note  and  colo- 
phon in  Chaucer  type,  in  black  and  red.     Boimd  in  half  hoUand. 

1896. 

300  copies.     2  of   the  initial  words  from  the  Chaucer  are  used  in 
this  book,  one  at  the  beginning  of  each  poem. 


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The  Shepheardes  Calender:  Conteyning  Twelve  ^glogues, 
Proportionable  to  the  Twelve  Monethes.  By  Edmund  Spenser. 
Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis.  Medium  4to.  Golden  type,  in  black  and 
red.  With  1 2  full-page  illustrations  by  A.  J.  Gaskin.  Bound  in 
half  hoUand.  1896. 

225  copies. 


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The   Water   of   the    Wondrous    Isles    By  William    Morris. 

j^  Large  4to.     Chaucer  type  in  double  columns,  with  a  few  lines  in 

Troy  type  at  the  end  of  each  of  the  seven  parts,  in  black  and 

red.     Boimd  in  limp  vellum.  1897. 

250  copies. 


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Two  Trial-Pages  of  the  Projected  Edition  of  Lord  Ber- 

/  ^'  ners'    Translation   of   Froissart's   Chronicles.      Folio. 

Chaucer  type,  with  heading  in  Troy  type,  in  black  and  red.     Not 

bound.  1897. 

160  copies  on  vellum;  none  on  paper.  It  was  the  intention  of 
Mr.  Morris  to  make  the  Froissart  a  worthy  companion  to  the 
Chaucer. 


246 

/?  c"  Sire    Degrevaunt.      Edited    by   F.    S.    Ellis  after    the   edition 

printed  by  J.  O.  Halliwell.     8vo.      Chaucer  type,  in  black  and 

red.     Woodcut  designed  by  Sir  E.  Bume-Jones.     Bound  in  half 

hoUand.  1897. 

350  copies. 


247 

Syr  Ysambrace.     Edited  by  F.  S.  Ellis  after  the  edition  printed 

by  J.   O.   Halliwell,  from  the   MS.  in  the   Library  of   Lincoln 

Cathedral,  with  some  corrections.     8vo.     Chaucer  tjrpe,  in  black 

and  red.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1897. 

350  copies. 

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Some  German  Woodcuts  of  the  Fifteenth  Century.     Being 

35  reproductions  from  books  that  were  in  the  library  of   the 

f  late  William  Morris.     Edited  with  a  list  of  the  principal  woodcut 

blocks  in  that  library,  by  S.  C.  Cockerell.     Large  4to.     Golden 

type,  in  black  and  red.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1897. 

225  copies.     29  of  these  reproductions  were  chosen  by  Mr.  Morris 
to  illustrate  a  projected  catalogue  of  his  library. 

249 
The  Story  of  Sigurd  the  Volsung  and  the  Fall  of  the 
Niblungs.  By  William  Morris.  Small  foho.  Chaucer  type, 
with  titles  and  headings  to  the  four  books  in  Troy  type,  in  black 
and  red.  2  illustrations  designed  by  Sir  E.  Bvime-Jones.  Bound 
in  limp  vellum,  1898. 

160  copies.     The  2  borders  used  in  this  book  were  almost  the  last 
that  Mr.  Morris  designed. 

250 

The  Sundering  Flood      Written  by  WiUiam  Morris.     Overseen 

for  the  press  by   May   Morris.     8vo.    Chaucer  type,  in  black 

and  red.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1898. 

300  copies.     This  was  the  last  romance  written  by  William  Morris. 

251 
Love  is  Enough,  or  the  Freeing  of  Pharamond:  A 
Morality.  Written  by  William  Morris.  Large  4to.  Troy  type, 
with  stage  directions  in  Chaucer  type,  in  black,  red,  and  blue.  2 
illustrations  designed  by  Sir  E.  Burne-Jones.  Bound  in  hmp  vel- 
lum. 1898. 

300  copies.     This  was  the  second  book  printed  in  3  colors  at  the 
Kelmscott  Press. 

253 

A  Note   by   William   Morris  on  His  Aims  in   Founding 

*^^         the  Kelmscott  Press.     Together  with  a  short  Description  of 

the  Press  by  S.  C.  Cockerell,  and  an  Annotated  List  of  the  Books 

printed  thereat.     8vo.     Golden  type,  with  five  pages  in  the  Troy  * 

and  Chaucer   type,  in  black   and   red.     Woodcut  designed   by 

Sir  E.  Burne-Jones.     Bound  in  half  holland.  1898. 

525  copies.     The  last  book  printed  at  the  Kelmscott  Press. 

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A  four-page  Leaflet  for  the  Ancoats  Brotherhood,  with 
the  frontispiece  from  the  Kelmscott  Press  edition  of  A  Dream  of 
John  Ball  on  the  first  page.     Golden  type.  1894. 


2500  copies. 


254 


Trial  Page  for  the  Projected  Edition  of  The  Tragedies, 
Histories,  &  Comedies  of  William  Shakespeare.  Portion 
of  Macbeth,  Act  i,  Scenes  vii  and  viii.  Printed  on  one  side  only 
of  a  sheet  of  hand-made  paper  measuring  11^x16^  inches. 
Golden  type,  double  columns,  in  black  and  red. 

I  copy. 

*'  The  original  intention,  as  first  set  out  in  the  list  of  May  20, 
1893,  was  to  print  it  [Shakespeare]  in  three  volumes  folio.  A  trial 
page  from  Lady  Macbeth,  printed  at  this  time,  is  in  existence." — 
S.  C.  Cockerell,  in  his  Annotated  List  of  Books  Printed  at  the  Kelm- 
scott Press. 

This  Trial  Page  of  Shakespeare  was  the  experimental  proof,  and 
is  unique.  It  remains  the  only  specimen  in  existence  of  the  projected 
Kelmscott  Shakespeare. 

From  the  collection  of  H.  Halliday  Sparling,  Secretary  of  the 
Kelmscott  Press. 

Enclosed  in  a  frame  and  glass. 

A  reduced  facsimile  of  the  Page  is  the  frontispiece  to  this  cata- 
logue. 


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Langland,  William.      The  vision  of  Pierce  Plowman, 

i /-/ S7^        nowe  the  seconde  tyme  imprinted  by  Roberte  Crowlye.     4to, 
'-^  /  russia.  [London,]  1550. 

The  First  Issue  of  the  Second  Edition. 

The  lines  have  been  numbered  throughout  with  a  pen.     Book- 
plate of  L.  Sharpe. 
Scarce. 

256 
Latimer,  Hugh.     FrvtefvU  Sermons  Preached  by  the  right 
reuerend  father,  and  constant  Martyr  of  Jesus  Christ  M.  Hugh 
•"^  Latymer  newly  Imprinted:  with  others,  not  heretofore  set  forth 

in  print,  to  the  edifying  of  all  which  will  dispose  them  selues  to 
the  readyng  of  the  same.  Engraved  border  about  title.  Colo- 
phon with  large  woodcut  printer's  device  on  verso  of  q  4  and  on 
the  last  page.  Separate  titles  to  parts  2  and  3.  4to,  dark  red 
crushed  levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the  rough,  by  Worsfold. 

At  London,  Printed  by  John  Daye,  1571. 

First  Collected  Edition  of  all  the  sermons  by  Latimer  that  have 
been  preserved,  thirty-nine  in  number.  Very  fine  large  copy,  with 
the  rare  print  of  Latimer  preaching  before  King  Edward,  part  i, 
page  22 ;  first  line  of  title  to  this  print  cut  into. 


257 
Leigh,  Richard.    Poems,  Upon  Several  Occasions,  and  to 
C^  Several  Persons.     By  the  Author  of  The  Censure,  of  the 

Rota.     Small  8vo,  old  sprinkled  calf,  sprinkled  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  Andr.  Clark  for 

William  Hensman,  1675. 
First  Edition. 

258 
Lewis,  John.    The  Life  of  Mayster  William  Caxton,  of 

n.  the  Weald  of  Kent ;  The  First  Printer  in  England.     Frontispiece 

'^ "  portrait  of  Caxton  by  Bagford.     8vo,   old  paneled  calf,  blind 

tooled,  sprinkled  edges.  London,  Printed  in  the  Year,  1737. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Scarce. 

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Lloyd,  Lodowicke.  The  Pilgrimage  of  Princes,  Newly 
published,  by  Lodowicke  Lloid  Esquier,  one  of  her  Maiesties  Sar- 
geants  at  Armes.  Engraved  border  about  title.  4to,  red  crushed 
levant  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges. 

Imprinted  at  London,  by  John  Wolfe,  1 586. 

Second  Edition.     A  fine  and  very  large  copy. 

Preceding  the  text  is  a  leaf  of  commendatory  verse  by  Thomas 
Churchyard;  and  on  leaves  133  to  137,  8  pages,  is  "The  Deathes 
of  Certaine  Noble  Princes  in  english  verse." 

Book-plate  of  Fountaine  Walker. 


260 
_  Lluellin,  M.     Men-Miracles.     With  other  Poemes.     By  M. 

u  t  LL.  St.  of  Ch.  Ch.  in  Oxon.     Small  8vo,  half  morocco,  sprinkled 

edges.  London,  Printed  for  Will  Shears  Junior,  1656. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 


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Locker-Lampson,  Frederick.    The  Rowfant  Library.    A 

Catalogue  of  the  Printed  Books,  Manuscripts,  Autograph  Letters, 
Drawings  and  Pictures,  collected  by  Frederick  Locker-Lampson. 
Frontispiece  by  George  Cruikshank.  Portrait.  8vo,  original 
cloth,  leather  back,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Bernard  Quaritch,  London,  1886. 

One  of  150  copies  printed  for  sale. 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter,  dated  15  April,  1886,  signed  F. 
Locker  L.,  which  refers  to  this  book  in  these  words:  "I  sh^  have 
liked  to  give  you  the  Catalogue — but  I  kept  only  a  few  copies  to 
give  to  my  relations  and  the  great,  great  libraries  —  &  sold  all  the 
rest  to  that  Demon  Quaritch." 


262 

/-^       Locker-Lampson,  Frederick.     My  Confidences.     An  Au- 
tobiographical Sketch  Addressed  to  my  Descendants.    2  portraits. 
8vo,  original  cloth,  uncut.      London,  Smith,  Elder,  &  Co.,  1896. 
First  Edition. 

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Lylie,  John.  Evphves  the  Anatomic  of  Wit.  Very  plea- 
sant for  all  Gentlemen  to  read,  and  most  necessary  to  remember. 
Wherein  are  contained  the  delights  that  wit  foUoweth  in  his  youth, 
by  the  pleasantnesse  of  loue:  and  the  happinesse  he  reapeth  in 
age,  by  the  perfectnesse  of  wisdome. 

Evphves  and  His  England,  Containing  His  Voyages  and 
Adventures:  Mixed  with  sundry  pretty  Discoiu^es  of  honest 
Loue,  the  Description  of  the  Country,  the  Court,  and  the  man- 
ners of  the  He.  DelightfuU  to  be  read,  and  nothing  hurtfuU  to 
be  regarded:  wherein  there  is  small  offence  by  Ughtnes  giuen  to 
the  wise  and  lesse  occasion  of  loosenesse  proffered  to  the  wanton. 
By  lohn  Lilie,  Master  of  Arts.  1636. 

2  volumes  in  i.     Black-Letter.     Square  8vo,  green  morocco  ex- 
tra, gilt  edges.  London,  Printed  by  John  Haviland,  1636. 
A  good  copy,  but  a  few  leaves  are  foxed. 

264 
Manuscript.    A  Seventeenth  Century  MS.  Book  of  Poems. 

Mostly  by  contemporary  writers.  Size  4^x2^  inches,  old  calf. 
The  original  owner's  name  is  written  on  a  fly-leaf,  with  the  date 
1650. 

265 
Maryell,   Andrew.     Miscellaneous   Poems.     By   Andrew 
Marvell,  Esq;  Late  Member  of  the  Honoiurable  House  of  Com- 
mons.    Fine  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait.     Tall  4to,  old 
calf,  sprinkled  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  Robert  Boulter,  1681. 

First  Edition.     Very  large  and  fine  copy  of  this  rare  book. 

266 
Milton,  John.      Angli  Pro  Populo  Anglican©  Defensio. 

Small  1 2mo,  original  vellum. 

Londini,  Typis  Du  Gardianis,  Anno  Domini  165 1. 

First  Edition.  Scarce.  This  book  was  condemned  by  Parliament 
at  the  Restoration,  and  ordered  to  be  burnt  by  the  common  hang- 
man. 

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Milton,  John.      Paradise     lost.      A   Poem   Written   in   Ten 
Books  By  John  Milton.     4to,  original  sheep,  back  strengthened, 
side  and  bottom  edges  of  several  leaves  uncut.        London,  1667. 

First  Edition.  First  Title,  with  the  author's  name  in  larger  type, 
which  is  the  rarer  form.  Fine  large  copy  on  extra  thick  paper,  meas- 
uring 7x5  7-16  inches.  It  has  the  original  blank  leaf  before  the  title, 
which  is  lacking  in  almost  all  copies.  Every  leaf  is  perfect.  Alto- 
gether this  is  an  exceptionally  fine  copy. 

Facsimile  of  title-page  opposite. 

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Milton,  John.     Paradise  lost.     A  Poem  in  Ten  Books.     The 
Author  John  Milton.     4to,  brown  levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on 
the  rough,  by  the  Club  Bindery. 

London,  Printed  by  S.  Simmons,  1668. 
First  Edition.  Fourth  Title.  Scarce.  Fine  copy,  measuring 
7\SH  inches.  The  printer's  name  appears  for  the  first  time  on 
this  title,  and  in  this  issue  also  first  appear  the  seven  preliminary 
leaves  containing  The  Printer  to  the  Reader,  The  Argument,  The 
Verse,  and  the  Errata.  There  is  no  blank  leaf  preceding  the  title, 
as  none  belongs  there,  for,  beginning  with  the  issue  with  the  fourth 
title,  the  title-leaf  was  printed  with  the  first  three  of  the  preliminary 
leaves,  leaving  no  blank  leaf.     Every  leaf  is  perfect. 

269 
Milton,  John.     Paradise  Lost.     A  Poem  In  Twelve  Books. 
The  Authour  John  Milton.     The  Fomth  Edition,  Adorn'd  with 
Sculptures.     Frontispiece  portrait  by  White.     Twelve  other  full- 
page  engravings.     Folio,  mottled  calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 

London,  Printed  by 
Miles  Fletcher  for  Richard  Bentley,  1688. 
First  Illustrated  Edition.     Bound  with  the  above  are  Paradise  Re- 
gained and  Samson  Agonistes,  with  separate  title-pages  of  the  same 
date  as  Paradise  Lost. 
Fine  copy.     Scarce. 

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_  Milton,  John.     Paradise  Lost.     A  Poem  in  Twelve  Books. 

^  •  With  the  Life  of  Milton  by  Thomas  Newton,  D.  D.     Paradise 

Regained.  A  Poem,  in  Four  Books.  To  which  are  added  Sam- 
son Agonistes:  and  Poems  on  Several  Occasions.  2  volumes. 
8vo,  original  sheep.     Philadelphia,  Printed  by  Robert  Bell,  1777. 

The  First  American  Edition  of  Milton.  Portrait  lacking  in  vol- 
ume I.     Very  rare. 

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Paradife  loft. 

POEM 

Written  in 

TEN    BOOKS 

By  JOHN  MILTON. 


Licenfed  and  Entred  according 
to  Order. 


London 

Printed,  and  are  to  be  fold  by  Peter  Parker 

tinder  Creed  Chnrch  neer  Aldgate  ^  And  by 

Ribert  Boulter  at  the  Turkj  Head  in  Bifhopf^ate-^reet ; 

And  ATatthiai  WdJifff  i  under  St.  Dunflons  Ghuich 

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Milton,  John.    Paradise  Lost.   A  Poem  Written  in  Ten  Books. 
^^  4to,  half  levant  morocco,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

London  [Pickering,  1873]. 

Facsimile  reprint  of  the  First  Edition,  with  a  monograph  on  the 
First  Edition  of  Milton's  Paradise  Lost.     Binding  worn. 


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278 

Milton,  John.  Paradise  Lost,  as  originally  published  by  John 
Milton,  Being  a  Facsimile  Reproduction  of  the  First  Edition. 
With  an  Introduction  by  David  Masson.     8vo,  original  cloth. 

London,  Elliot  Stock,  1877. 

273 

Milton,  John.  Paradise  Regained.  A  Poem.  In  IV  Books. 
To  which  is  added  Samson  Agonistes.  The  Author  John  Milton. 
Small  8vo,  original  sheep,  rebacked. 

London,  Printed  for  John  Starkey,  1680. 

Second  Edition.     With  the  leaf  of  license  before  the  title. 
A  tear  in  the  lower  left-hand  corner  has  removed  a  portion  of  the 
word  "in"  of  the  imprint. 

274 
x>  f^  Milton,  John.     The  History  of  Britain,  That  part  especially 


/3. 


now  call'd  England.     Fine  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait 

by  Faithome.     4to,  old  calf,  sprinkled  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  J.  M.  for  James  Allestry,  1670. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

With  book-plates  of  Thomas  Graham  and  Joannis  M.  Gray. 


275 
Milton,  John.     Poems,  &c.  Upon  Several  Occasions.     By 

^O p  Mr.  John  Milton:    Both  English  and  Latin,  &c.  Composed  at 

several  times.     With  a  small  Tractate   of    Education   To    Mr. 

Hartlif.     Small  8vo,  red  crushed  levant  morocco,  gilt  edges,  by 

Riviere.  London,  Printed  for  Tho.  Dring,  1673. 

Fine  large  copy,  measuring  6^  x4  1-16  inches. 

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Milton,  John.     Facsimile  of  the  Manuscript  of  Milton's 
Minor  Poems  Presen'ed  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
bridge.   Edited  by  William  Aldis  Wright.    Folio,  sheets,  uncut,  en- 
closed in  a  cloth  case.     Cambridge,  At  the  University  Press,  1899. 
The  47  photographic  facsimiles  are  by  A.  G.  Dew-Smith. 

277 

Moore,  Thomas.       Irish  Melodies,   By  Thomas  Moore,  Esq. 

With  an  Appendix  containing  the  original  Advertisements,  and 

the  Prefatory  Letter  on  Music.    8vo,  original  boards,  paper  label, 

uncut.  London,  Printed  for  J,  Power,  182 1. 

First  edition  without  the  musical  accompaniments.  Very  fine 
copy.  Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter  dated  August  18,  1820, 
signed  "Ever  yours,  T.  Moore,"  which  says  in  part  as  follows: 

"The  advertisement  had  better  run  thus 

J.  Power  has  the  honour  to  inform  the  Subscribers  to  Moore's 
I,  M.  that  the  Eighth  Number  is  nearly  ready  for  the  Press. 

The  Proprietor  begs  also  to  state  that,  in  compliance  with  the 
wish  of  the  Public  for  an  edition  of  the  Poetry  of  this  work,  uncon- 
nected with  the  Music,  Mr.  Moore  is  at  present  employed  in  prepar- 
ing such  a  volume  for  publication,  and  that  it  will  appear  at  the 
same  time  with  the  Eighth  Number,  the  Poems  of  which  it  will,  of 
course,  comprize." 

278 
More,  Henry.      Philosophical!    Poems,    By   Henry   More: 
Master  of  Arts,  and  Fellow  of   Christs  College  in  Cambridge. 
8vo,  sprinkled  calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Silari. 

Cambridge,  Printed  by  Roger  Daniel,  1647. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Besides  the  general  title-page,  there 
are  eight  separate  title-pages  to  the  various  parts,  each  dated  1647. 
Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

279 
MuFFET,  Thomas.       The  Silkewormes,  and  their  Flies: 

Liuely  described  in  verse,  by  T.  M.  a  Countrie  Farmar,  and  an 
apprentice  in  Physicke.  For  the  great  benefit  and  enriching  of 
England.    Woodcut  on  title-page.    Small  4to,  red  levant  morocco 

extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 

Printed  at  London  by  V.  S.  for  Nicholas  Ling,  1599. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Small  blank  portion  of  corner  of  title- 
page   mended.     From  Thomas  Park's   library,  and  with  his  auto- 
graph on  title-page.     Very  rare. 

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New  York  Historical  Society.     Catalogue  of  the  Books,  Tracts, 

Newspapers,  Maps,  Charts,  Views,  Portraits,  and  Manuscripts,  in 

the  Library  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society.     8vo,  old  half 

roan.  New  York,  J.  Seymour,  22  Dec.  181 3. 

Presentation  copy,  with  autograph  inscription  "For  Francis  Jef- 
frey, Esq.  from  the  Historical  Society." 

Jeffrey  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  New  York  Historical  So- 
ciety ;  he  was  married  to  an  American  lady  while  in  New  York  in 
1813. 

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Payne,   Roger.     Binding.    Schemata   Caelestina.    Manu- 
script.    1 2mo,  russia,  richly  tooled,  gilt  edges,  by  Roger  Payne. 

1797. 

This  is  a  most  beautiful  specimen  of  Payne's  work,  in  perfect  con- 
^AZ)  dition.      An  expert  in  bindings  pronounces  it  the  best  example  of 

"^^     '  Roger  Payne's  art  he  has  ever  seen. 

Inserted  is  Payne's  original  dated  bill,  in  his  autograph,  which  is 
not  only  curiously  interesting  in  itself,  but  is  specially  valuable  be- 
cause it  gives  a  full  description  of  the  binding,  and  thus  verifies  it  as 
the  work  of  this  noted  master.  Facsimile  of  the  bill  on  opposite 
page. 

282 
Philips,   Katherine.      Poems.     By  the   Incomparable,   Mrs. 
ryj  K.  P.     Small  8vo,  original  calf,  rebacked,  marbled  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  F.  G.  for  Rich.  Marriott,  1664. 

Very  fine  copy  of  the  rare  First  Edition  (which  was  unauthorized), 
with  the  leaf  of  imprimatur  and  leaf  of  errata.  Autograph  of  Ann 
Littleton  on  title. 

Book-plate  of  L  P.  Van  Ness. 


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283 

Philips,  Katherine.     Poems  By  the  most  deservedly  Admired 
^  Mrs.  Katherine  Philips  The  matchless  Orinda.     Brilliant  impres- 

sion of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Faithome.     Folio,  original 
caK.  London,  Printed  by  J.  M.  for  H.  Herringman,  1667. 

Very  fine  copy,  with  wide  margins,  of  the  First  Authorized  Edition. 

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Poole,  Joshua.      The  English  Parnassus:  or,  A  Helpe  to 
English  Poesie.     Containing  A  Collection  Of  all  Rhyming 
^'Z^        Monosyllables,  The  choicest  Epithets  and  Phrases.   With  Some 
General  Forms  upon  all  Occasions,  Subjects,  and  Theams,  Alpha- 
betically digested.     8vo,  unbound,  marbled  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  Tho.  Johnson,  1657. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 


285 
Pope,  Alexander.    The  Dunciad.    With  Notes  Variorum,  and 
^  ^  X-l  the  Prolegomena  of  Scriblerus.     Frontispiece  of  the  Owl  on  a 

pedestal.     4to,  black  calf,  top  edges  gilt,  side  edges  uncut. 

London,  Printed  for  Lawton  Gilliver,  1729. 
Very  tall  copy  in  fine  condition.     Scarce. 


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286 

PoRDAGE,  Samuel.     Poems  Upon  Several  Occasions.     By 

S.  P.  Gent.     Small  8vo,  green  morocco  by  Stikeman. 

London,  Printed  by  W.  G.  for  Henry  Marsh,  1660. 
First  Edition.     Very  scarce. 

287 
PoRDAGE,  Samuel.     Troades   Englished.     By  S.  P.     Small 
8vo,  green  morocco  by  Stikeman. 

London,  Printed  by  W.  G.  for  Henry  Marsh,  1660. 
First  Edition.     Rare.     Not  mentioned  by  Lowndes. 

288 
GtuARLES,   Francis.      Divine   Fancies:    Digested  into    Epi- 
grammes,  Meditations,  and  Observations.    By  Fra:  Quarles.    4to, 
calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Aitken, 

London,  Printed  by  M.  F.  for  lohn  Marriot,  1632. 
First  Edition.     With  book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

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GtuARLEs,  Francis.     The  Shepheards  Oracles :  Delivered  in 

J^  Certain  Eclogues.     By  Fra:  Quarles.     Small  410,  blue  half  calf, 

y    —  gilt  top.  London,  Printed  by  M.  F.  for 

John  Harriot  and  Richard  Marriot,  1646. 
First  Edition.      Rare.      Signature  Bi  is  cut  into  and  there  is  a 
hole  in  the  text.     Signature  E2  is  mended. 
Book-plate  of  E.  H.  Bierstadt. 

S90 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter.     Judicious   and  Select   Essayes 
/  ^ ^  and  Observations.     By  that  Renowned  and  Learned  Knight, 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh  Upon  The  First  Invention  of  Shipping.  The 
Misery  of  Invasive  Warre.  The  Navy  Royall  and  Sea-Service. 
With  his  Apologie  for  his  voyage  to  Guiana.  Brilliant  impression 
of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Vaughan.  Small  8vo,  original 
calf,  marbled  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  T.  W.  for  Humphrey  Moseley,  1650. 

First  Edition.     Fine  and  large  copy,  with  all  of  the  four  titles. 

At  the  end  of  the  volume  is  an  eight-page  list  of  books  published 
by  Humphrey  Moseley,  among  which  are  Milton's  Poems,  Waller's 
Poems,  Shirley's  Poems,  Crashaw's  Steps  to  the  Temple,  Quarles's 
Divine  Poems,  and  Suckling's  Fragmenta  Aurea. 

Book-plate  of  Hugh  Percy. 

291 
Randolph,  Thomas.       Poems  with  the  Muses  Looking- 
^  y  Glasse :  and  Amyntas.     4to,  old  calf,  red  edges. 

Oxford,  Printed  by 
Leonard  Lichfield,  for  Francis  Bowman,  1638. 
A  very  fine  copy  of  the  rare  First  Edition. 

292 

^        RiTsoN,  xTosEPH.      Bibliographia  Poetica:   A  Catalogue  of 

'-^  *  English  Poets,  of  the  Twelfth,  Thirteenth,  Fourteenth,  Fifteenth, 

and  Sixteenth,  Centurys,  with  a  Short  Account  of  their  Works. 

8vo,  original  boards,  uncut.  London,  Printed  by 

C.  Roworth  for  G.  and  W.  Nicol,  1802. 

First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

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RoDORicus.     Speculum.     Illuminated  by  hand.     Folio,  old  red 
^  calf,  sprinkled  edges.  [Paris,  about  1469]. 

7 /C  Printed  with  Gothic  type.     Very  wide  margins.     A  beautiful  ex- 

ample of  fifteenth-century  typography. 


294 

Rump  (The),  or  a  Collection  of  Songs  and  Ballads,  made 
upon  those  who  would  be  a  Parliament,  and  were  but  the  Rump 
^2^  of  an  House  of  Commons,  five  times  dissolv'd.     Fine  impres- 

sion of  the  frontispiece.     Small  8vo,  original  sheep,  rebacked. 

London,  Printed  for  H.  Brome  and  H.  Marsh  [1660]. 

First  Edition.     Very  rare. 

The  bottom  line  of  the  imprint  on  the  title-page  is  cut  off,  and 
there  is  a  large  hole  in  the  text  of  one  leaf  (signature  I5).  As  is 
always  the  case,  signature  G  is  wanting. 

The  copy  in  the  Foote  Collection  was  believed  by  Mr.  Perkins  to 
be  the  only  perfect  one  in  existence. 


295 

f-n  Rump :  or  an  Exact  Collection  Of  the  Choycest  Poems  and 

—  Songs  relating  to  the  Late  Times.     By  the  most  Eminent 

Wits,  from  Anno  1639  to  Anno  1661.     Small  8vo,  red  crushed 

levant  morocco,  edges  gilt  on  the  rough.         London,  Printed  for 

Henry  Brome,  and  Henry  Marsh,  1662. 

Very  fine  and  uncommonly  large  copy  of  this  scarce  book.  Preced- 
ing the  printed  title  is  a  fine  impression  of  the  engraved  title. 

This  collection  is  much  fuller  than  the  edition  of  1660. 

From  the  Royal  Society  Library,  with  armorial  book-plate.  The 
Society  Stamp  is  on  verso  of  the  title-leaf  and  on  verso  of  the  last 
leaf. 


296 
Sandys,  George.    A  Paraphrase  vpon   the  Psalmes   of 
^^  David  and  vpon  the  Hymnes  Dispersed  throughout  The  Old  and 

New  Testaments.     By  G.  S.     Small  8vo,  original  calf,  red  edges. 

London,  1636. 
First  Edition.     Very  large  and  very  fine  copy. 

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Sandys,  George.     Ovid's  Metamorphosis  Englished  by  G.  S. 

//^^  Engraved  title  by  Cecill  and  engraved  frontispiece  by  Marshall 

Tall  4to,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  by  William  Stansby,  1626. 

First  Edition.  Large  and  fine  copy.  Opposite  the  title  is  the  leaf 
with  "  The  Minde  of  the  Frontispeece,  And  Argument  of  this  Worke." 
The  last  leaf  has  the  printer's  engraved  device.  MS.  notes  on  some 
pages. 


/>         Sandys,    George.     Christs    Passion.     A    Tragedy.    With 
^  «  Annotations.     Small  8vo,  old  calf,  gilt  edges. 


298 

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London,  Printed  by  I.  L.,  1640. 


First  Edition.     Scarce. 


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Sandys,  George.     Sandys  Travailes.     Illustrated  with  Fifty 

^^  Graven    Maps   and   Figures.      Folio,  olive  morocco  extra,  gilt 

edges,  by  Bedford. 

London,  Printed  by  R.  and  W.  Leyboum,  1658. 

Sixth  Edition.     Very  fine  copy.     The  binding  is  an  example  of 
the  best  work  of  Bedford. 


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Shakespeare.     The   Dramatic   Works   of   Shakespeare. 
/  /  »  Engraved  portrait  (inserted),  and  numerous  engraved  illustrations 

by  Stothard,  Westall,   and   others.     i2mo,  red   crushed   levant 
morocco,  gilt  edges,  by  Matthews,  enclosed  in  a  slip-case. 

London,  William  Pickering,  1826. 

The  first  issue  of  the  Diamond  Edition.  The  binding  is  a  choice 
example  of  Matthews's  work. 

This  volume  was  bought  by  the  present  owner  at  the  sale  of  the 
Matthews  Library  in  1897. 

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Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.  Adonais  An  Elegy  on  the  Death 
of  John  Keats,  Author  of  Endymion,  Hyperion  Etc.  4to,  orig- 
inal paper  covers,  uncut.         Pisa,  with  the  types  of  Didot,  1821. 

First  Edition.  A  piece  has  been  torn  from  the  lower  right  corner 
of  the  front  cover  and  rudely  replaced.  Fine  copy.  Uncut  copies 
of  this  book  with  the  original  blue  paper  covers  are  extremely  rare. 

Reference  is  made  to  this  edition  of  Adonais  in  two  of  the  letters 
by  Shelley  which  are  described  in  Part  II  of  this  catalogue. 

Facsimile  of  title-page  opposite. 


502 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.     Adonais    An  Elegy  on  the  Death 

of  John  Keats.     Edited  with  a  Bibliographical  Introduction  by 

Thomas  J.  Wise.    4to,  boards,  uncut.       London,  Pubhshed  for  the 

Shelley  Society  by  Reeves  and  Ttuner,  1886. 

Of  this  facsimile  reprint  of  the  first  edition  of  Adonais  300  copies 
were  printed. 


303 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe,     Adonais.     An  Elegy  on  the  Death 
Jt  ^j_  of  John  Keats,  Author  of  Endymion,  Hyperion  Etc.     8vo,  half 

morocco,  uncut,  with  the  original  green  paper  covers  bound  in. 
Enclosed  in  a  green  straight-grained  morocco  case. 

Cambridge,  Printed  by  W.  Metcalfe,  1829. 

Second  Edition.  Presentation  copy  from  Arthur  Hallam,  who  edited 
this  edition,  to  Samuel  Rogers,  with  Hallam's  autograph  inscription 
on  the  title-page. 

This  second  edition  is  reputed  to  be  even  scarcer  than  the  first. 


304 

J  2_J"         Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.     Adonais.     Edited  with  Introduc- 
/     —  tion  and  Notes  by  W.  M.  Rossetti.     i2mo,  original  cloth. 

Oxford,  at  the  Clarendon  Press,  1891. 
First  issue  of  this  Edition. 

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ADONAIS 


AN  ELEGY  ON  THE  DEATH  OF  JOHN  KEATS, 
AUTHOR  OF  ENDYMION,  HYPERION  ETC. 

BY 

PERCY.  B.  SHELLEY 


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PLATO. 


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WITH  THE  TYPES  OF  DIDOT 

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Shirley,  James.  Poems  &c.  By  James  Shirley.  Brilliant  im- 
pression of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Marshall.  Small  8vo, 
green  levant  morocco,  gilt  edges,  by  J.  Wright. 

London,  Printed  for  Humphrey  Moseley,  1646. 
First  Edition.     Fine  large  copy,  measuring  6}(  x  4  inches.    Rare. 


306 
Sidney,  Philip.      The  Comtesse  of  Pembrokes  Arcadia. 

Written  by  Sir  Philip  Sydney  Knight.  Now  the  Fovrth  Time 
published  with  some  new  additions.  Engraved  title.  Folio,  orig- 
inal calf,  rebacked,  sprinkled  edges. 

London,  Imprinted  by  H.  T.  for  Matthew  Lownes,  1613. 

Fourth  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Inserted  are  two  engraved  portraits 
of  Sydney. 


307 
r/J"       Sinker,  Robert.      The  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
/  '  bridge.      10  illustrations.     4to,  original  boards,  vellum  paper 

back,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

Cambridge,  Deighton  Bell  &  Co.,  1891. 
Number  67  of  an  edition  of  153  copies  on  hand-made  paper. 


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Slater,  J.  H.    Book   Collecting    A  Guide  for  Amateurs. 

8vo,  original  cloth,  gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut. 

London,  Swan  Sonnenschein  &  Co.,  1892. 

Large  Paper  copy  of  the   First  Edition.     Number  391  of  500 
printed. 


309 
Slater,  J.  H.   Early  Editions.  A  Bibliographical  Survey  of  the 
Works  of  Some  Popular  Modem  Authors.     8vo,  original  cloth, 
leather  back,  gilt  top.  London,  Kegan  Paul  &  Co.,  1894. 

First  Edition. 


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Smith,  James  and  Horatio.     Rejected  Addresses:  or  The 
New  Theatrum  Poetarum.     1 2mo,  original  boards,  uncut. 

London,  Printed  for  John  Miller,  181 2. 

First  Edition.  Fine  copy.  Only  a  small  portion  of  the  paper  label 
remains. 

511 

SoMERYiLLE,  WiLLiAM.      The  Chace.    A  Poem.     Engraved 
frontispiece  by  Gravelot.     4to,  original  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  G.  Hawkins,  1735. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 

312 
Spenser,  Edmund.      The  Faerie  Qveen :  The  Shepheards 
Calendar:  Together  with  the  Other  Works  of  England's  Arch- 
Poet,  Edm.  Spenser.      Engraved  title  and  head-  and-tail  pieces. 
Folio,  olive  crushed  levant  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges,  by  Riviere. 
London,  Printed  by  H.  L.  for  Matthew  Lownes,  161 1. 

First  Collected  Edition.  An  uncommonly  large  and  fine  copy. 
The  binding  is  a  rich  example  of  Riviere's  work. 

313 

Sterne,  Laurence.      A  Sentimental  Journey  through 

France  and  Italy.     By  Mr.  Yorick.     8vo,  old  calf. 

London,  Printed  for  T.  Becket  and  P.  A.  De  Hondt,  1768. 

First  Edition,  and  a  fine  large  copy.  These  volumes  belonged 
to  the  Honorable  Miss  Ingram,  one  of  the  original  subscribers  (see 
list  of  subscribers,  volume  i,  page  12),  and  has  her  autograph  signa- 
ture on  the  fly-leaf  of  each  book. 

Sterne,  Laurence.    Facsimile  of  the  First  Edition  of  A 
Sentimental  Journey  Through  France  and  Italy.     By 

Mr.  Yorick.  2  volumes,  1 2  mo,  original  boards,  paper  labels,  un- 
cut. 100  copies  printed  on  Holland  paper,  of  which  this  is  Num- 
ber 36,  and  4  copies  on  vellum.  Printed  from  type  at  the 

De  Vinne  Press,  New  York,  1885. 

This  copy  was  presented  to  Mr.  C.  W.  Frederickson  by  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Hoe,  who  had  the  reprint  made.  Inserted  is  a  letter  by  Mr.  Hoe, 
dated  Feb.  4,  1889,  which  was  sent  with  the  book. 

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Suckling,  John.  Fragmenta  Avrea.  A  Collection  of  all  the 
Incomparable  Peeces  Written  By  Sir  John  Svckling  And  pub- 
lished by  a  Friend  to  perpetuate  his  memory.  8vo,  sprinkled 
calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Bedford.  London,  Printed  by 

Tho.  Warren  for  Hvmiphrey  Moseley,  1648. 

A  fine  copy  of  the  Second  Edition,  with  a  beautiful  impression  of 
the  frontispiece  portrait  by  Marshall. 

There  are  seven  separate  title-pages,  all  dated  1648,  in  addition 
to  the  general  title-page. 

Armorial  book-plate. 

316 

Swift,  Jonathan.     A  Tale  of  a  Tub.    To  which  is  added  An 

Account  of  a  Battel  between  the  Antient  and  Modem  Books  in 

St.  James's  Library.     8vo,  original  calf,  leather  label. 

London,  Printed  for  John  Nutt,  1704. 

A  large  and  uncommonly  fine  copy  of  the  First  Edition  of  this 
scarce  book,  with  separate  title-pages  to  each  of  the  three  parts. 
Preceding  the  first  title-page  is  the  leaf,  frequently  wanting,  which 

gives  a  factitious  list  of  "Treatises  writ  by  the  same  author 

which  will  be  speedily  published." 

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Swift,  Jonathan.    Travels  into  Several  Remote  Nations 
of  the  World.    In  Four  Parts.    By  Lemuel  Gulliver.     Portrait 
and  maps.     2  volumes,  8vo,  original  calf,  leather  labels. 

London,  Printed  for  Benj.  Motte,  1726. 

A  large  and  fine  copy  of  the  scarce  First  Edition.  With  separate 
pagination  to  each  part.  Book-plate  in  each  volume  of  Charles 
Viscount  Bruce,  son  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Ailesbury,  dated  1742. 

318 

Swift,  Jonathan.     A  Complete  Collection  of  Genteel  and 

Ingenious  Conversation.     In  Three  Dialogues.     By  Simon 

Wagstaff,  Esq.     8vo,  half  calf,  gilt  top. 

London,  Printed  for  B.  Motte  and  C.  Bathurst,  1 738. 

A  Large  Paper  copy  of  the  First  Edition  in  very  fine  condition. 
Rare  in  this  state.  Preceding  the  title-page  is  a  leaf  on  which  is 
printed  the  publisher's  advertisement  of  other  books,  including  "A 
Tale  of  a  Tub"  and  "Gulliver's  Travels." 

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Swift,  Jonathan.    Verses  on  the  Death  of  Dr.   Swift. 

^  ,  Written  by  Himself:  Nov.  1731.     Folio,  half  morocco. 

London,  Printed  for  C.  Bathurst,  1739. 

A  garbled  version  of  this  poem  was  surreptitiously  printed  in  1731. 
This  is  the  First  Authorized  Edition.     Scarce. 


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Swift,  Jonathan.     The  History  of  the  Four  Last  Years 
of  the  Queen.     8vo,  original  calf,  sprinkled  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  A.  Millar,  1758. 
First  Edition.     Large  Paper  copy.     Name  written  on  title-page. 

321 
Swinburne,  A.  C.     A  Sequence  of  Sonnets  on  the  Death 
of  Robert  Browning.     Svo,  original  paper  covers. 

London,  Printed  for  Private  Circulation,  1890. 
Rare.     Very  fine  copy,  in  a  red  silk  wrapper,  which  is  enclosed  in 
a  red  levant  morocco  case  with  title  and  date  on  back. 

322 
Tennyson,  Alfred.     The  Falcon.    Svo,  original  paper  covers, 
uncut.  London,  Printed  for  the  Author,  1879. 

First  Edition.     One  of  the  rarest  of  the  privately  printed  books  of 
Tennyson.    The  present  copy,  except  for  a  slight  break  in  the  front 
cover,  is  in  the  finest  possible  condition. 
Facsimile  of  title-page  on  preceding  page. 

323 

Tennyson,  Alfred.  The  Promise  of  May.  Svo,  original 
paper  covers,  uncut.  London,  Printed  for  tiie  Author,  1882. 

First  Edition.  This  is  not  quite  so  rare  as  "The  Falcon,"  yet  all 
told,  after  most  diligent  searching,  only  1 1  copies  are  known,  and 
some  of  these  lack  the  covers.  The  covers  of  the  present  copy  are 
slightly  worn  by  use. 

Facsimile  of  title-page  opposite. 


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Tennyson,  Alfred.     Lucretius.     Small  4to,  original   cloth, 
^  "^     ^  uncut.     Cambridge,  Mass.,  Printed  for  Private  Circulation,  1S6S. 

First  Edition.     Only  a  few  copies  were  made  by  Mr.  James  T. 
Fields  "for  the  use  of  himself  and  friends." 
Scarce. 

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Thomas,  Isaiah.  Catalogue  of  English,  Scotch,  Irish  and 
American  Books.  For  Sale  at  the  Worcester  Bookstore. 
Small  1 2mo,  original  paper  covers. 

Printed  at  Worcester,  by  Isaiah  Thomas,  1801. 


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Thomas,  Isaiah.     The  History  of  Printing  in  America. 
OV  With  a  Biography  of  Printers  and  an  Account  of  Newspapers. 

Illustrated.     2  volumes,  tall  4to,  original  calf. 

Worcester,  From  the  press  of  Isaiah  Thomas,  Jun. 
Isaac  Sturtevant,  Printer,  1810. 

First  Edition.   Presentation  copy  from  the  Author,  with  autograph 
inscription  on  the  title-page  of  volume  i  as  follows : 
"Presented  to  the  Rev.  Leverett  I.  F.  Huntington, 
By  his  Friend, 

Isaiah  Thomas. 
Jany.  1820." 

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TussER,  Thomas.  Five  Hundred  points  of  good  Husbandry. 

Square  8vo,  green  morocco  extra,  gilt  edges. 

London,  Printed  by  I.  O.  for  the  Company  of  Stationers,  1 638. 

The  blank  corners  of  a  few  leaves  mended ;  otherwise  a  good  copy 
of  this  scarce  volume. 


328 
Waller,  Edmond.    Poems,  &c.     Written  by  Mr.  E.  D.  Waller. 

Small  8vo,  buif  polished  calf,  gilt  edges,  by  Bedford. 

London,  Printed  for  Humphrey  Mosley,  1645. 

The  genuine  First  Edition,  with  the  dedication  and  advertisement 
to  the  reader  and  list  of  contents  not  in  the  spurious  one. 

A  fine  copy  of  this  very  rare  book. 

329 
•  ^  Waller,  Edmond.     Poems,  &c.     Written  Upon  Several  Occa- 

sions, And  To  Several  Persons.    By  Edmond  Waller,  Esq.    Small 
8vo,  original  calf,  gilt  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  Henry  Herringman,  1664. 
Second  Authorized  Edition. 

Very  fine  copy,  with  the  leaf  of  imprimatur,  preceding  the  title- 
leaf,  dated  January  10th,  1663. 

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Waller,  Edmund.  The  Works  of  Edmund  Waller  Esqr.  in 
Verse  and  Prose  Published  by  Mr,  Fenton.  Frontispiece  por- 
trait of  Waller  engraved  by  Virtue  after  Kneller.  Many  other  en- 
graved portraits  by  Virtue.  Engraved  tide.  4to,  original  calf 
extra,  red  edges.  London,  Printed  for  I.  Tonson,  1729. 

Very  fine  large  copy.     The  binding  is  an  interesting  example  of 
eighteenth-century  work. 

331 
Walton,  Izaak.     The  Life  of  Dr.  Sanderson,  Late  Bishop 
of  Lincoln.     BrilHant  impression  of  the  frontispiece  portrait  by 
♦    White.     8vo,  original  calf,  marbled  edges. 

London,  Printed  for  Richard  Marriott,  1678. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy. 
Book-plate  of  Charles  B.  Foote. 


Walton,  Izaak.   The  Lives  of  Dr.  John  Donne,  Sir  Henry 
3^»  Wotton,    Mr.   Richard   Hooker,    Mr.    George    Herbert. 

Written  by  Izaak  Walton.     Four  portraits.     i2mo,  original  calf, 

sprinkled  edges.  London,  Printed  by 

Tho.  Newcomb  for  Richard  Marriott,  1670. 

First  Collected  Edition.     A  large  fresh  copy,  with  fine  impressions 
of  the  four  portraits. 
Scarce. 


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Warner,  William.  Albions  England :  A  Continued  Historie 
'^  of  the  same  Kingdome,  from  the  Originals  of  the  first  Inhabitants 
thereof:  And  most  the  chief e  Alterations  and  Accidents  there 
hapning:  vnto,  and  in,  the  happie  Raigne  of  our  now  most 
gracious  Soueraigne  Queen  Elizabeth.  First  penned  and  pub- 
lished by  V ViUiam  Warner :  and  now  reuised,  and  newly  inlarged 
by  the  same  Author.  4to,  red  morocco,  gilt  edges,  by  the  Club 
Bindery.       London,  Printed  by  the  Widow  Orwin  for  J.  B.,  1597. 

A  scarce  volume  of  sixteenth-century  poetry. 
Title-page  and  several  leaves  mended  and  some  lines  cut  into. 
This  book  is  seldom  found  in  perfect  condition. 

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Washington  Collection.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Washing- 
ton Collection  in  the  Boston  Athenaeum  Compiled  and 
Annotated  by  Appleton  P.  C.  Griffin.  With  an  Appendix  By 
W.  C.  Lane.  Illustrated.  8vo,  original  cloth,  gilt  top,  other 
edges  uncut.  The  Boston  Athenaeum,  1897. 

Number  50  of  55  copies  on  special  paper  provided  for  the  pur- 
pose in  1850,  and  first  used  in  making  this  limited  edition. 

335  '^ 

Wither,  George.    Wither's  Motto,  Nee  habeo,  nee  Careo, 
nee  Curo.     Engraved  title  by  Elstraeke.     Small  8vo,  old  calf. 
London,  Printed  for  John  Marriott,  1621. 
First  Edition.     Large  copy,  with  the  leaf  of  Explanation  before 
the  title-page.     Some  leaves  water-stained. 

336 
Wordsworth,  William.     Autograph   Signature   in   The 

Annales  of  Cornelius  Tacitus.     The  Description  of  Germanie. 

Translated  by  Sir  Henry  Savile  K*.     Folio,   old  boards,  leather 

back.  Printed  at  London,  by 

Arnold  Hatfield  for  lohn  Norton,  161 2. 

Wordsworth's  copy,  with  his  autograph  signature  on  the  title-page. 
The  volume  is  in  very  poor  condition.     Some  leaves  are  torn  and 
many  are  wormed. 

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Wordsworth,  William.  Poems  of  Wordsworth  Chosen  and 
Edited  by  Matthew  Arnold.     Vignette  portrait.      8vo,   original 
cloth,  paper  label,  uncut.         London,  Macmillan  and  Co.,  1892. 

First  Edition.     Large  Paper  copy.  Cs 

338 
Wordsworth  and  Coleridge.  A  Description  of  The 
Wordsworth  and  Coleridge  Manuscripts  in  the  Posses- 
sion of  Mr.  T.  Norton  Longman.  With  three  facsimile  Repro- 
ductions. Edited  with  notes  by  W.  Hale  White.  Large  4to, 
original  boards,  uncut.  Longmans,  Green,  and  Co., 

London,  New  York,  and  Bombay,  1897. 

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339 
Addison,  Joseph.   Original  manuscript  Transfer  of  Gopy- 
,  right  of  the  Eighth  Volume  of  the  Spectator,  written  on 

P  (/"  the  first  page  of  a  folio  sheet. 

The  document  reads  as  follows. 

"Know  all  men  by  these  presents  That  I  Joseph  Addison  of  the 
Parish  of  S*  Clements  Danes  in  the  County  of  Middle  Essex  for  &  in 
consideration  of  the  Sume  of  Fifty  Three  pounds  fifteen  Shillings  of 
good  &  Lawfull  money  of  Great  Britain  to  me  in  hand  paid  by  Jacob 
Tonson  Jun^  of  London  Bookseller  The  receipt  whereof  He  the  said 
Joseph  Addison  Doth  hereby  acknowledge  He  the  said  Joseph  Addi- 
son Hath  Bargained  Sold  assigned  &  Sett  over  &  by  these  presents 
Doth  Bargain  Sell  assign  &  Sett  over  All  That  his  full  &  Sole  right 
&  Title  of  in  &  to  The  Copy  of  the  Eighth  Vol  of  the  Spectator  from 
Number  five  hundred  fifty  Six  Inclusive  to  Number  Six  hundred 
Thirty  five  Inclusive  which  said  Copy  to  be  and  remain  unto  the  said 
Jacob  Tonson  his  heires  &  assigns  for  ever.  In  Witness  whereof  the 
said  Joseph  Addison  hath  hereunto  Sett  his  hand  &  Seal  this  Twenty 
Seventh  day  of  Aug^t-  1715. 

Sealed  &  delivered  being  [Signed]  Jos.  Addison 

first  stampt  according  to 
the  Severall  acts  of 
parliam'  in  the  presence  of 

Tho.  Tickell 

Jh  Pinckney  " 


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Brown,  John.  Autograph  Letter  to  T.  B.  Musgrave.  i  page, 
4to. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"  Charlestown,  Jefferson  Co.  Va.  17*  Nov.  1859. 
T.  B.  Musgrave  Esqr 

My  Dear  Young  Friend 

I  have  just  received  your  most  kind  & 
welcome  letter  of  the  15'^  inst  but  did  not  get  any  other  from  you. 
I  am  under  many  obligations  to  you  ^'  to  your  Father  for  all  the 
kindness  you  have  shown  me,  especially  since  my  disaster.  May  God 
&  your  own  conciousness  ever  be  your  rewarders.  Tell  your  Father 
that  I  am  quite  cheerful  that  I  do  not  feel  myself  in  the  least  de- 

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graded  by  my  imprisonment,  my  chain,  or  the  near  prospect  of  the 
Gallows.  Men  cannot  imprison,  or  chain ;  or  hang  the  Soul.  I  go 
joyfuly  in  behalf  of  Millions  that  "have  no  rights  that  this  great 
&  glorious";  ^Hhis  Christian  Republic,"  "is  bound  to  respect." 
Strange  change  in  morals  political ;  as  well  as  Christian ;  since 
1776.  I  look  forward  to  other  changes  to  take  place  in  '■'^  Gods 
good  time^'' ;  fully  believing  that  "the  fashion  of  this  world  passeth 
away."  I  am  unable  now  to  tell  you  where  my  friend  is;  that  you 
inquire  after.  Perhaps  my  Wife  who  I  suppose  is  still  with  Mrs 
[name  obliterated],  may  have  some  information  of  him.  I  think  it 
quite  uncertain  however.  Farewell;  May  God  abundantly  bless 
You  all.  Your  Friend 

John  Brown" 
Brown  was  executed  on  December  2d,  1859. 


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Browning,  Elizabeth    Barrett.     Autograph  Letter  to 
Cornelius  Mathews.    3  pages,  small  8vo,  and  address. 

About  one  half  of  this  long  letter  is  quoted  below ;  the  portion  not 
quoted  is  mostly  comment  on  books  written  by  Mr.  Mathews. 

"50  Wimpole  Street  March,  1844. 

My  dear  M''  Mathews  you  will  forgive  my  silence  for  the  sake  of  a 
feebleness  of  health  which  has  been  overmuch  pressed  upon  this  win- 
ter, by  occupation.  For  the  future  you  shall  have  a  better  corre- 
spondent, if  indeed  my  writing  to  you  oftener  can  appear  to  you  a 
better  thing — and  your  indulgence  will  help  you  to  understand,  in 
the  meantime,  how  a  very  weak  hand,  such  as  mine  is,  may  be  over- 
worked in  the  preparation  for  the  printing  of  a  book,  until  it  is  forced 
to  deny  itself  to  the  claims  of  private  letters.  Also  from  the  latter 
part  of  January  to  April  I  am  apt  to  be  more  shaken  than  usual  by 
the  visitations  of  our  English  climate  and  the  influence  of  the  east 
wind. — I  have  a  heart  which  runs  like  a  racehorse,  leaps  like  a  hun- 
ter, &  stands  still  like  a  mule,  all  in  the  course  of  one  morning — so 
that  I  am  sometimes  forced  to  be  quiet,  &  think  of  life  death  &  the 
wind.  Upon  the  whole,  my  health  does  improve,  I  think,  and  two 
summers  now  together  might  renew  me,  1  fancy.  But  I  live  upon  a 
point, —  a  spire  of  a  church  —  liable  to  precipitation  every  instant  — 
which  is  no  reason,  however,  that  I  sh^  write  so  much  about  it. 

Yes, —  I  will  explain  how  impossible  it  was  for  me  to  escape  the 
mortification  of  refusing  to  see  your  friend  M^  Belford.  He  wrote  a 
very  courteous  letter  to  me  when  he  found  that  I  c^  not  see  him,  & 
amused  me  exceedingly  by  inquiring  into  the  personal  history  of  my 
relation  M""  Tennyson.  Leigh  Hunt  he  said,  had  intimated  some- 
where that  he  was  my  relation !  —  Now  I  remember  that  Leigh  Hunt 
in  his  'Last  of  the  Violets'  (which  by  the  way  has  just  been  repub- 


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lished  by  Moxon  together  with  his  other  collected  poems)  had  the 
goodness  to  say  of  me 

*  I  took  her  at  first  for  a  sister  of  Tennyson's ' 
and  that  poetical  relationship  which  after  all  I  have  no  better  claim 
to,  I  fear,  than  lies  in  M""  Hunt's  '  gentilnesse,'  is  the  only  one  exist- 
ing between  us.  Indeed  I  never  saw  M""  Tennyson  in  my  life.  So  far 
in  reply  to  your  question  —  which  made  me  smile  again.  And  I  have 
thanks  upon  thanks  for  you  besides,  for  your  kind  words  added  to  the 
mistake.  As  to  the  mistake,  if  I  could  make  out  a  hundred  &  ninety 
ninth  cousinship  a  hundred  &  ninety  nine  times  removed  from 
Alfred  Tennyson,  I  would  snatch  at  it,  and  frame  my  pedigree  .  .  . 

I  am  at  the  end  of  my  paper  &  have  yet  to  thank  you  warmly  & 
gratefully  for  your  kind  interest  about  the  American  edition  of  my 
poems,  to  the  proposed  arrangement  of  which  I  accede  at  once.  The 
proof  sheets  &  preface  shall  go  to  your  care  through  Wiley  &  Put- 
nam ;  and  perhaps  you  will  have  the  goodness  to  see  that  the  latter, 
which  must  be  in  MS.,  is  correctly  printed.  Probably  I  shall  have 
two  volumes  here  —  &  Moxon  is  my  publisher.  Your  American 
kindnesses  are  remembered  in  the  deepest  of  my  heart  —  and  to  be 
less  unworthy  of  them  is  a  better  object  than  fame.  Let  me  hear  from 
you,  &  tell  me  if  your  own  book  has  a  triumph  in  its  own  land. 
Ever  yours  truly  &  faithfully 

Elizabeth  B.  Barrett:' 


Browning,  Robert.  Autograph  Letter  signed  Robert  Brown- 
ing, i^  pages,  8vo,  19  Warwick  Crescent,  upper  Westboume 
Terrace,  July  28,  1863. 

*'I  find  this  morning  that  the  case  is  very  little  altered  —  the  swell- 
ing being  still  so  considerable  as  to  affect  Robert's  articulation  —  al- 
though in  the  main  he  is  better  and  probably  will  be  well  in  a  day  or 
two." 


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Browning,  Robert.     Autograph  Letter  to  Mr.  Gillespie, 

signed  Robert  Browning,     i^^    pages,   8vo,    19   Warwick  Cres- 
cent, W.    May  18,  1 87 1. 

**  I  shall  send  in  a  packet  to-morrow  Robert's  verses, — they  are  too 
bulky  for  the  post.  You  need  be  in  no  hurry  to  return  them  —  pray 
keep  them  six  months  if  you  please.  You  must  remember  they  are 
the  very  first  attempts  of  the  poor  fellow, — but  there  is  no  fear  that 
you  will  deny  your  indulgence. " 


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Bryant,  William  Cullen.     Fragment  of  an  Autograph 
Manuscript  of  Bryant,  written  in  Italy  and  describing  his  ex- 
periences in  that  country,     i  page,  8vo. 

345 
Bryant,  William  Cullen.     Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  signed  W.  C.  Bryant,     i  page,  8vo,  New 
York,  March  20,  1871. 

"I  think  that  you  ought  not  to  make  so  great  a  difference  in  what 
you  pay  me  for  the  Odyssey  and  the  Iliad.  One  reason  for  this  is  that 
there  are  fewer  translations  of  the  Odyssey  in  our  language  than  of 
the  other  epic.  Another  is,  that  one  successful  book  sells  another  by 
the  same  author.  It  seems  to  me  therefore  that  you  should  pay  me 
two  thousand  dollars  instead  of  one  as  was  proposed  by  Mr.  Clarke 
the  other  day." 

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Bryant,  William    Cullen.     Autograph  Letter  to  J.  R. 

Osgood  &  Co.,  signed  W.  C.  Bryant,     i  page,  Svo,  New  York, 

March  27th,  187 1. 

"As  to  the  question  of  compensation  for  the  Odyssey,  I  cannot 
look  upon  it  in  any  other  light  than  the  one  in  which  it  appeared  to 
me  when  I  wrote  you  the  other  day.  In  addition  to  what  I  then  said 
there  are  these  considerations.  You  take  less  risk  than  when  you 
published  the  Iliad  —  inasmuch  as  the  success  of  that  work  opened  the 
way  for  the  success  of  this.  Again  —  it  is  very  likely  that  those  who 
purchased  my  version  of  the  Odyssey  will  be  apt  to  do  it  soon  after  it 
is  published  —  most  of  them  at  least  and  after  the  two  years  which 
will  belong  to  you,  the  sales  will  be  comparatively  quite  small.  You 
will  not  therefore,  I  think,  regard  me  as  unreasonable  if  I  adhere  to 
the  sum  named  $2000. — for  the  copyright  during  the  two  full  years." 

347 
Bryant,  William  Cullen.   Autograph  Letter  to  James  R. 
^/^  Osgood,  signed  W.   C.   Bryant,     ly^   pages,   Svo,  New  York, 

March  30,  1875. 

"I  cannot  think  of  any  such  task  as  that  which  you  suggest  un- 
til I  have  one  or  two  others  off  my  hands.  I  cannot  at  my  age  take 
on  any  new  ones  which  will  give  me  anxiety — and  even  if  I  were  to 
accomplish  that  to  which  you  refer  I  should  desire  afterward  to  look 
the  result  carefully  over  and  consider  whether  it  ought  to  appear  in 
my  life  time. " 

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CowPER,  WiLi/iAM.     Autograph  Letter  signed  W"*  Cowper. 
4  pages,  4to,  Nov.  27,  1784. 

This  long  letter  treats  almost  entirely  of  "The  Task,"  which  was 
published  in  1785  ;   a  small  portion  is  quoted  below. 

"My  principal  purpose  is  to  allure  the  Reader  by  character,  by 
scenery,  by  imagery  and  such  poetical  embellishments,  to  the  Read- 
ing of  what  may  profit  him.  Subordinate  to  this,  to  combat  that 
predilection  in  favor  of  a  Metropolis  that  beggars  and  exhausts  the 
Country  by  evacuating  it  of  all  its  principal  Inhabitants,  and  collat- 
erally and  as  far  as  is  consistent  with  this  double  Intention,  to  have 
a  stroke  at  Vice  Vanity  and  folly  wherever  I  find  them 

Sully's  rule  —  nulla  dies  sine  linea,  will  make  a  volume  in  less  time 
than  one  would  suppose.  I  adhered  to  it  so  rigidly  that  though 
more  than  once  I  found  three  lines  as  many  as  I  had  time  to  com- 
pass, still  I  wrote ;  and  finding  occasionally,  and  as  it  might  happen, 
a  more  fluent  vein,  the  abundance  of  one  day  made  me  amends  for 
the  barrenness  of  another.  But  I  do  not  mean  to  write  blank  verse 
again,  not  having  the  music  of  a  rhime,  it  requires  so  close  an  atten- 
tion to  the  pause  and  the  cadence  and  such  a  peculiar  mode  of  ex- 
pression, as  render  it,  to  me  at  least,  the  most  difficult  species  of 
Poetry  that  I  have  ever  meddled  with." 


349 
Curtis,  George  William.    Autograph  Letter  to  Ticknor 
/-^  and  Fields,  signed  George  William  Curtis,     i  page,  8vo,  Ash- 

field,  Mass.,  II  October,  1866,  acknowledging  receipt  of  a  cheque 
for  $60. 

350 
Curtis,  George  William.   Autograph  Letter  to  James  T. 
^S^         Fields,  signed  G.  W,  Curtis,     i   page,  8vo,  Albany,  June  15, 
1867,  asking  for  a  copy  of  Gov.  Andrews's  argument  on  Prohibi- 
tion.   The  postscript  says,  "  I  am  not  drunk  as  you  might  imagine 
from  my  autograph." 


351 
y  ,       Curtis,  George  William.    Autograph  Letter  to  James  T. 
^  £i>3  Fields,  signed  G.  W.  Curtis,    i  ^  pages,  8vo,  Albany,  3  Septem- 

ber, 1867. 

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^   Curtis,  George  William.   Autograph  Letter  to  James  R. 
Y^  Osgood,  signed   George   William   Curtis.     4  pages,  small  8vo, 

West  New  Brighton,  3  January,  1882. 


353 
Curtis,  George  William.   Autograph  Letter  to  James  R. 
y    '  *^  Osgood,    signed    George   William    Cvirtis.     i  page,   small  Svo, 

West  New  Brighton,  6  January,  1882. 

354 
y^  ^'~7\      Du  Maurier,   George.     Autograph   Letter   to   James  R. 
(P   ^   —^  Osgood,  signed  G.  du  Mavirier.     iJS^  pages,  small  Svo,  April  5, 

1887,  in  reference  to  several  drawings  and  sketches  which  are 
here  referred  to  by  their  titles. 


355 
Du  Maurier,  George.    Autograph   Letter   to   James   R. 
//_  ^  Osgood,  signed  G,  du  Maurier.     i  page,  small  4to,  Hampstead, 

/^  June  19,  1888. 

"What  am  I  to  do  with  scrubious  &  rily  callithumpkin  Abbey? 
He  wont  come  &  see  my  drawings — he  wont  answer  my  letters — 
Two  or  three  have  been  waiting  for  the  last  fortnight,  to  know  if  they 
will  do  for  Harper. 

Just  written  to  Beefsteak  Club  to  say  you  haven't  robbed  a  church." 

356 
.  Du  Maurier,  George.     Autograph   Letter   to   James   R. 

y   ,  ,  Osgood,  signed  G.  du  Maurier.     ly^  pages,  small  4to,  Hamp- 

stead, June  21,  1888. 


J. 


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Du  Maurier,  George.     Autograph   Letter   to   James   R. 
Osgood,  signed  G.  du  Maurier.     i  page,  small  8vo,  Hampstead, 
July  17,  1891. 

"*I  knod  there  evenings'  (with  you  and  Black)!  I  went  home 
early  &  absolutely  sober,  &  had  a  model  this  morning  &  drew  like  a 
bird!" 

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Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.     Autograph  Letter  to  Professor 
Henry  Reed.     5^  pages,  small  8vo,  La  Pierre  House,  i  Jany. 

1854- 

A  portion  of  this  letter  follows. 

"My  dear  Sir.  Your  little  condition  affixed  to  the  contract, 
namely,  that  I  should  send  you  my  opinion  of  Mr.  Wordsworth's 
genius  has  checked  my  readiness  to  send  you  my  mite  for  the  tablet, 
until  this  time ;  for  I  have  been  in  New  York  two  days,  &  there  is  no 
time  in  Philadelphia,  I  find,  for  a  stranger;  no  time  then  to  fit  and  form 
his  obligations  to  the  solitariest  &  wisest  of  poets.  I  do  not  know 
but  I  must  defer  it  altogether  to  a  silent  hour,  by  and  by,  far  from 
cities.  It  is  very  easy  to  see,  that  to  act  so  powerfully  in  this  practi- 
cal age,  he  needed,  with  all  his  oriental  abstraction,  the  indomitable 
vigor  rooted  in  animal  constitution,  for  which  his  countrymen  are 
marked.  Otherwise  he  could  not  have  resisted  the  deluge-streams  of 
their  opinion  with  success.  One  would  say,  he  is  the  only  man  among 
them  who  has  not  in  any  point  succumbed  to  their  ways  of  thinking, 
&  has  prevailed.  .  .  . 

Rather  than  not  write,  I  will  send  this  rude  note,  reserving  my  right 
to  communicate  a  more  considered  ballot,  as  soon  as  I  find  a  quiet 
half  hour  to  rejoice  in  my  remembrances  of  this  old  benefactor.  .  .  . 
I  enclose  $15.00 

Gratefully  &  respectfully  yours, 

R.  W.  Emerson." 

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Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.     Autograph  Letter  to  William 
Emerson,  Jr.,  signed  Waldo  E.    4  pages,  small  8vo,  and  origi- 
nal addressed  envelope.  Concord,  29  March,  1861. 

More  than  half  the  letter  is  here  quoted. 

"I  only  remember  that  the  main  question  was,  which  translation 
of  Plato?  I  found  or  fancied  Bohn's  translations  great  benefactors. 
Taylor's  which  I  knew  best,  is  not  yet  English  but  very  Greekish  & 
pedantic.  Madame  Dacier's  ' Religious  Dialogues'  so  called  is  in  Eng- 
lish, of  course,  a  translation  of  a  translation.  Cousin  in  French  is 
elegant  &,  I  believe,  faithful.  But  I  found  great  comfort  in  reading 
the  two  first  volumes  of  Bohn,  &  dialogues  in  later  volumes,  in  their 
good  English  &  tone  of  sense  and  culture.  1  have  not,  to  be  sure, 
looked  into  the  book  to  criticize,  or  even  to  compare,  but  only  for 
Plato.  But  if  your  friend  simply  wishes  to  come  at  Plato  by  the 
shortest  way  let  her  take  Bohn  thankfully." 

360 
Emerson,   Ralph   Waldo.      Autograph    Letter  to   R.   C. 
Waterston,  signed  R.  W.  Emerson.     2  pages,  8vo,  Concord 
Sept.  23,  1862,  making  arrangements  for  lectures. 

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Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.     Autograph  Letter  to  James  R. 

Osgood,  signed  R.  W.   Emerson.     2}^  pages,   8vo,   Concord, 

I  August,  1872. 

"Among  many  letters  most  of  them  still  unanswered  in  our  confu- 
sion, I  received  one  from  Mr.  Ticknor  expressing  very  kind  sympathy 
from  himself  &  your  house  in  our  behalf,  for  which  I  desire  to  spe- 
cially thank  him  &  you  all  for  myself  &  my  family.  It  is  not  the 
least  of  our  misfortune  that  it  keeps  us  in  a  rude  confusion  for  many 
days,  that  neglects  the  first  duties  &  graces." 


362 
^  Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.    Autograph  Letter  to  Miss  Put- 

*  nam,  signed  R.  W.  Emerson,    lyi  pages,  very  small  410,  Con- 

cord 29  April,  expressing  thanks  for  an  invitation  to  the  "Carnival 
of  Authors." 

363 
Emerson,   Ralph    Waldo.     Autograph    Letter   to   R.  C. 
Waterston,  signed  R.  W,  Emerson. 

"...  I  hate  to  speak  in  a  file  of  oratory  where  spontaneousness  is 
due, — which  I  have  not.  In  my  later  experience  in  this  kind,  I  go 
from  bad  to  worse." 

364 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.     Autograph  Letter  signed  R.  W. 

^  t/^  Emerson,     i  page,  small  4to. 

"It  is  now  more  than  a  week  since  I  sent  the  last  page  of  the  arti- 
cle on  Character." 


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Hawthorne,  Nathaniel.     Autograph  Letter,     i  page,  410. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"West  Newton, 
My  dear  Sir, 

As  regards  the  proposition  for  twelve  short  tales.  I  shall  not  be 
able  to  accept  it,  because  experience  has  taught  me  that  the  thought 
and  trouble  expended  on  that  kind  of  production,  is  vastly  greater  in 
proportion,  than  what  is  required  for  a  long  story. 

I  doubt  whether  my  romances  would  succeed  in  the  serial  mode  of 
publication ;  lacking,  as  they  certainly  do,  the  variety  of  interest  and 
character  which  seem  to  have  made  the  success  of  other  works,  so 
published.     The  reader  would  inevitably  be  tired  to  death  of  the  one 

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prominent  idea,  if  presented  to  him  under  different  aspects  for  a 
twelvemonth  together.  The  effect  of  such  a  story,  it  appears  [to] 
me,  depends  on  its  being  read  continuously.  If,  on  completion  of 
another  work,  it  should  seem  fairly  and  naturally  divisible  into  serial 
portions,  I  will  think  further  of  your  proposal. 

I  have  by  me  a  story  which  I  wrote  just  before  leaving  Lenox,  and 
which  I  thought  of  sending  to  Dr.  Bailey  of  the  National  Era,  who 
has  offered  me  $ioo.  for  an  article.  But,  being  somewhat  grotesque 
in  its  character,  and  therefore  not  quite  adapted  to  the  grave  and  se- 
date character  of  that  Journal,  I  hesitate  about  so  doing,  and  will  send 
it  to  the  International,  should  you  wish  it  at  the  price  above  men- 
tioned. The  story  would  make  between  twenty  and  thirty  of  such 
pages  as  Ticknor's  editions  of  my  books  —  hardly  long  enough,  I 
think,  to  be  broken  into  two  articles  for  your  magazine,  but  you 
might  please  yourself  on  that  point.  I  cannot  afford  it  for  less  than 
$ioo,  and  would  not  write  another  for  the  same  price. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Nathl  Hawthorne." 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     Autograph  Letter  to  xTames 

R.  Osgood.    I  page,  8vo. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"296  Beacon  st., 
Dear  Mr.  Osgood,  Nov.  22^ 

My  nephew,  a  son  of  Hon.  C.  W.  Upham  of  Salem,  may  call 
on  you  some  day  to  ask  questions  about  heliotypes.  Will  you  have 
the  kindness  to  listen  &  to  answer  any  questions  he  may  put  as  if  he 
were  Michael  Angelo,  Leonardo  de  Vinci  and  Raffael  le  Sanzio  all 
rolled  into  one,  for  the  space  of  five  or  even  of  seven  minutes,  and 
greatly  oblige  Yours  very  truly 

O.  W.  Holmes." 


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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes,   i  page,  8vo,  2  P.  M.  Tuesday. 

"  It  has  occurred  to  me  since  writing  to  you  that  my  friendly  critic 
may  have  thought  that 

'  How  a  woman  and  a  young  one '  etc. 
might  sound  a  little  like 

How  a  woman  with  her  young  one  etc 
Was  that  or  something  like  that  what  he  or  she  meant?    Supposing 
that  to  be  so  I  would  be  willing  to  have  it  read 
How  the  lonely,  helpless  daughter 
of  a  quiet  household  feels ! 
Don't  let  'em  print  lonely  lovely  I" 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.  Autograph  Letter  signed  O,  W. 
Holmes.  ^  page,  very  small  4to,  March  30th,  n.  p.,  accepting  an 
invitation  to  dine. 

369 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.  Autograph  Letter  to  Robert  C. 

Winthrop,  signed   O.  W.  Holmes.     3   pages,  small   8vo,    164 

Charles  St.,  July  5th,  1866. 

"I  wish  you  to  look  over  the  list  of  speakers  for  the  Alumni  Cele- 
bration here  presented  for  your  private  inspection." 
The  list  covers  two  of  the  pages. 


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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     Autograph    Letter   to  R.  C. 
Waterston,  not  signed,     i  ^  pages,  small  Svo. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Boston  July  13th,  1869. 
Dear  Mr  Waterston 

I  am  tired  of  writing  occasional  poems.  I  should  be  thank- 
ful to  have  somebody  else  undertake  the  honorable  task  you  have 
assigned  to  me. 

If  you  can  find  another  (as  no  doubt  you  can)  please  let  me  off.  If 
you  do  not  find  anybody  before  the  first  of  September  you  can  write 
me  a  line  and  I  will  then  say  yes  or  no  at  once.  If  I  answer  now  it 
must  be  to  say  that  I  must  \>^^  the  committee  to  excuse  me  uncondi- 
tionally. 

What  with  Alumni  meetings  and  Jubilee  and  Halleck  Monument, 
and  Cambridge  Memorial  I  am  getting  to  feel  like  a  street  musician 
strapped  to  a  hurdy  gurdy. " 


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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.  Autograph  Letter  to  J.  R.  Os- 
good &  Co.,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes.  2  pages,  Svo,  296  Beacon 
St.,  Jan.  29th,  1872,  in  reference  to  "The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast 
Table." 

"You  can  send  me  proofs  of  the  'Poet'  in  book  form  whenever 
you  like,  and  I  will  get  them  ready  without  delay.  As  to  illustrations 
I  suppose  the  most  important  question  to  me  as  well  as  to  you  is 
whether  they  are  like  to  pay." 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     Autograph  Letter  to  James 

R.  Osgood,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes.      2^  pages,  small  410,   296 
,^ ^  Beacon  St.,  Sept.  i6th,  1876. 

A  letter  of  thanks  for  a  gift  of  Hogarth  pictures. 

"As  pictures  of  the  time  with  all  its  peculiarities  of  streets,  cos- 
tumes, habits,  etc.  they  are  unending  sources  of  interest.  I  am 
constantly  reminded  of  Dickens,  who  has  done  for  our  own  age  in 
another  form  what  Hogarth  did  for  his.  The  same  variety  of  char- 
acter, the  same  degree  of  exaggeration,  approaching  to  caricature, 
when  it  does  not  reach  it,  the  same  hints  of  the  grotesque  and  the 
terrible,  only  carried  further  by  the  poet  than  by  the  romancer,  char- 
acterise both  printed  page  and  picture." 


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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.  Autograph  Letter.  3  pages,  8vo. 
^2P  The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"296  Beacon  st  Oct  18th 

1879- 
Mess.  Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co. 
Gentlemen, 

I  have  received  a  letter  from  D"" — Rev.  D"" — Ray  Palmer 
of  Newark,  N.  J.,  formerly  of  Albany,  a  well  known  and  much  re- 
spected orthodox  clergyman,  author  of  various  hymns,  among  others 
of 

"  My  faith  looks  up  to  Thee  " — 
an  old   Phillips  Academy  scholar  of  about  my  time,    a  man  very 

friendly  to  me,  and  of  broad  and  catholic  feeling 

Stop  and  take  breath, 
who  wishes  to  write  an  elaborate  and  comprehensive  Article  on  my 
various  writings. 

He  has  written  for  the  International  Review,  while  under  its  for- 
mer Editors,  Articles  on  Bryant,  Longfellow  and  Lowell  which  have 
been  well  received. 

He  suggests  that  it  might  be  an  advantage  to  me  to  be  "set  on 
pedestal "  by  one  whose  life  and  pursuits  have  so  differed  from  my 
own. — You  will  find  D""  Palmer's  name  and  a  bit  of  his  writing  in 
Allibone.  He  is  a  most  worthy  and  a  very  intelligent  man  and  of 
course  I  am  perfectly  willing  that  he  should  write  about  me  as  much 
as  he  likes.  I  have  no  doubt  that  it  will  help  the  sale  of  my  books 
to  have  so  a  widely  known  orthodox  minister  speak  well  of  them,  as 
he  doubtless  will.  Now  to  do  his  task  he  wants  what  he  has  not  got 
—  a  complete  set  of  my  writings  in  prose  and  verse.  He  tells  me 
that  the  publishers  of  Bryant  and  Longfellow  sent  him  their  works, 
and  that  perhaps  my  publishers  would  send  him  mine. 

Will  you  be  so  good  as  to  send  him  a  set  of  my  writings — on  your 
own  account,  if  you  think  it  will  pay  you  to  do  it;  on  my  own  account 


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if  you  think  that  more  reasonable ;  dividing  the  cost,  if  that  suits  you 
better. — What  satisfies  you  will  satisfy  me,  but  be  so  good  as  to  send 
the  books  at  any  rate  to  the  following  address,  by  express : 
Rev.  Ray  Palmer,  D.  D. 

205  Mt  Pleasant  Avenue 
Newark 

New  Jersey. 
Very  truly  yours 

O  W  Holmes." 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.    Autograph  Letter  to  Robert 
C.  Winthrop,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes,     i  page,  small  8vo,  with 
black  border,  296  Beacon  street,  Dec.  17th,  1888. 

"I  find  something  in  the  tokens  of  regard  that  pass  the  survivors 
of  the  great  shipwreck  of  four  score  years  or  thereabouts.  They  are 
drawn  closer  to  each  other  than  they  ever  were  or  could  be  before. 
We  old  men  hold  fast  by  the  balusters  going  down  stairs — so  we  clasp 
more  tightly  the  hands  of  our  dear  old  friends  as  we  come  near  the 
last  steps  of  that  other  stairway  which  is  so  soon  to  reach  its  landing." 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes,   i  page,  small  8vo,  296  Beacon 
street,  March  loth,  1892. 

"As  to  the  reminiscences  I  am  writing  at  them,  but  with  no  fixed 
intention  of  publishing  during  my  life,  or  perhaps  for  the  public  at 
any  time  as  they  will  stand  in  the  manuscript.  I  am  not  prepared  to 
make  any  arrangement  about  their  disposition  at  present." 

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SZ)       Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.   Autograph  Letter  signed  O.  W. 
Holmes,    i  page,  small  Svo,  296  Beacon  st.,  Oct.  9  1893. 

"Most  of  my  manuscripts  of  my  various  works  have  disappeared 
and  I  cannot  pretend  to  trace  them. 

Any  that  I  may  have  are  going  through  the  slow  process  by  which 
my  papers  of  all  sorts  are  coming  out  of  chaos,  and  I  cannot  hunt 
them  up  at  present." 

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Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.  Autograph  Letter  to  Robert  C. 
Winthrop,  signed  O.  W.  Holmes,    i  page,  small  8vo,  May  14th, 
1894. 

"  I  have  had  to  have  my  nurse  back  and  go  under  medical  treatment 
again.     But  for  this  you  would  have  heard  from  me  before  this  time. " 
Dr.  Holmes's  death  occurred  on  October  7,  1894. 

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Irving,  Washington.      Holograph    Manuscript   of    "The 
J7>  Knight  of  Malta,"  the  original  draft  of  the  complete  story, 

as  prepared  by  Irving  for  the  Knickerbocker,  signed  "Geoffrey 
Crayon."     4  sheets  of  various  sizes. 


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//^  Aspinwall,  American  Consul,  London.     3  pages,  410,  and  ad- 

dress. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"New  York,  Feb  24'*^  1835 
My  dear  Aspinwall 

Not  having  received  a  line  from  you  since  you  arrived  in  England 
I  am  perfectly  at  a  loss  to  know  whether  or  not  this  will  find  you  in 
London,  and  for  some  time  past  have  been  communicating  with  you 
and  sending  MSS.  to  you  at  a  venture. 

By  the  next  packet  you  will  receive  the  MS.  of  a  volume  making 
the  third  of  my  Miscellany.  It  will  relate  to  persons  and  scenes  in 
England,  and  I  am  inclined  to  think  will  be  more  taking  with  the 
British  public  than  anything  I  have  published  for  some  time  past.  I 
am  willing  to  let  it  go  for  five  hundred  guineas,  but  not  for  less.  You 
may  open  a  negociation  for  it 

I  have  given  the  American  edition  of  my  projected  series  the  gen- 
eral title  of  "The  Crayon  Miscellany" — No  i.  &c  It  is  more  defi- 
nite than  that  of  "Miscellanies"  I  should  like  to  have  that  title 
adopted  in  the  English  edition 

By  this  packet  you  will  receive  the  proof  sheets  of  the  first  volume 
of  my  nephew  Theodore's  book — "The  Conquest  of  Florida  by  Her- 
nando de  Soto."  It  will  bear  my  nephews  name  on  the  title  page. 
In  a  dedication  to  me  he  will  acknowledge  the  counsel  and  aid  I  have 
given  him  in  his  first  literary  attempt.  The  work  in  question  has 
been  executed  under  my  eye.  It  is  an  original  work,  taken  from  the 
Spanish  and  Portuguese  accounts  of  this  singular  expedition.  Southey 
pronounces  the  Spanish  work,  by  Garcilaso  de  La  Vega,  one  of  the 
most  delightful  in  the  Spanish  language. 

In  my  nephew's  work  all  the  spirit  and  adventure  &  picturesqueness 
of  the  Spanish  narration  is  preserved,  enriched  and  authenticated  by 
the  Portuguese  account,  and  verified  by  statistical  testimonials  of 
various  travellers  in  the  U.  S.  I  think  it  will  be  a  work  comprising 
the  charm  of  romance  with  the  truth  and  utility  of  History.  Should 
I  have  executed  the  work  I  should  have  asked  at  least  1200  guineas 
for  it.  As  my  nephew  is  a  new  name  he  must  be  content  with  less, 
but  I  think  he  ought  to  have  at  least  600  gs.  Make  the  best  bargain 
you  can  however  &  let  the  work  be  put  immediately  to  press.  The 
residue  will  be  forwarded  promptly. 

Yours  ever 

W.  I." 

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Irving,  Washington.  Autograph  Letter  to  Col.  Thomas 
Aspinwall,  American  Consul,  London.  3^^  pages,  4to,  and  ad- 
dress.   The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"New  York,  July  15*^  1835. 
My  dear  Aspinwall 

I  send  through  the  Legation  the  third  number  of  the  "Crayon 
Miscellany"  containing  "  Legends  of  the  Conquest  of  Spain."  The 
work  will  be  kept  back  here  until  some  time  in  September,  to  give  the 
London  publisher  a  fair  chance.  You  will  govern  yourself  in  your 
arrangements  with  Mr.  Murray  by  the  prices  of  the  preceding  volumes. 
Perhaps  five  hundred  guineas  would  be  a  good  standing  price  for  the 
numbers  of  the  Miscellany;  which  will  generally  be  about  the  size  of 
the  present  one.  The  last,  by  some  miscalculation  in  the  MS.  ran 
shorter  than  I  had  intended.  I  leave  the  arrangement  entirely  to  you 
and  wish  every  thing  to  be  done  to  M""  Murrays  satisfaction.  It  really 
gives  me  great  pleasure  to  be  again  in  business  relations  with  him.  I 
notice  what  you  say  with  respect  to  the  Harpers.  It  grieves  and 
mortifies  me,  after  having  written  so  confidently  on  the  subject;  to 
find  that  the  matter  is  not  likely  to  turn  out  as  I  had  anticipated. 
The  Harpers  seem  now  disinclined  to  make  any  proposition.  They 
say  they  have  hitherto  made  all  their  arrangements  in  London 
through  Mr  Rich,  and,  though  he  is  not  altogether  what  they  could 
wish,  yet  they  should  not  like  to  break  off  before  the  year  is  out. 
That  they  might  be  able  to  see  what  could  be  done  next  December 
&c  1  told  them  that  I  had  no  wish  neither  would  you  be  willing,  to 
interfere  with  the  interests  of  Mr  Rich,  for  whom  we  both  had  a  sin- 
cere friendship,  and  that  I  was  not  aware  of  his  acting  as  their  agent, 
when  I  moved  in  the  matter — so  I  suffered  the  subject  to  rest  there. 
I  have  since  had  a  conversation  with  Henry  Carey,  Leslies  brother- 
in-law,  but  find  he  has  employed  Miller  as  his  agent  for  seventeen 
years  past,  and  I  would  not  on  any  account  take  a  crumb  from  the 
honest  [word  illegible]  mouth. 

I  feel  vexed  with  myself  that  my  meddling  zeal  should  have  perhaps 
awakened  anticipations  in  your  mind,  only  to  be  disappointed  — but 
I  am  sure  you  will  excuse  me  and  attribute  all  this  officiousness  to  a 
friendly  anxiety  for  your  welfare.  I  shall  keep  on  the  look  out  should 
any  thing  offer  that  may  be  of  service  to  you. 

I  wish  you  would  procure  and  send  out  to  me  promptly,  "Travels  in 
the  interior  of  North  America  by  John  Bradbury."  The  Journey  was 
performed  in  1 8 1 1  &  the  book  probably  published  some  years  afterward. 

Also  "Tales  of  an  Indian  Camp"  subsequently  the  title  page  was 
altered  to  Traditions  of  the  North  American  Indians — (or  some  such 
title).  It  was  published  by  [word  illegible]  Bentley  about  the  year 
1830  Yours  ever  very  truly 

W  I. 

P.  S.  I  am  looking  with  anxiety  for  the  fate  of  Theodore's  work. 
I  am  afraid  Mr  Murray  will  delay  it  so  long  that  other  publishers 
will  get  hold  of  it." 


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Irving,  Washington.     Autograph    Letter  to  L.  G.  Clark, 

office  of   the    Knickerbocker,   Fulton   Street,    New  York.     2^ 
pages,  4to,  and  address.    The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 
My  dear  Sir,  "Greenburgh,  March  17th  1840 

In  consequence  of  not  sending  to  the  post  office  for  several  days  I 
did  not  receive  your  letter  calling  so  lustily  for  help  until  yesterday 
(Monday)  after  post  hours.  I  have  nothing  at  hand  to  send  to  you, 
and  fear,  if  I  had,  it  would  come  too  late.  We  have  nothing  new  in 
these  parts  excepting  that  there  has  been  the  deuce  to  pay  of  late  in 
Sleepy  Hollow;  a  circumstance,  by  the  by,  with  which  you  of  New 
York  have  some  concern,  as  it  is  connected  with  your  Croton  aque- 
duct. This  work  traverses  a  thick  wood  about  the  lower  part  of  the 
hollow,  not  far  from  the  old  Dutch  haunted  church;  and  in  the  heart 
of  the  wood  an  immense  culvert  or  stone  arch  is  thrown  across  the 
wizard  stream  of  the  Pocantico,  to  support  the  aqueduct.  As  the 
work  is  unfinished  a  colony  of  Patlanders  have  been  encamped  about 
this  place  all  winter,  forming  a  kind  of  Patsylvania  in  the  midst  of  a 
"wilderness."  Now  whether  it  is  that  they  have  heard  the  old  tradi- 
tionary stories  about  the  Hollow,  which,  all  fanciful  fabling  and  idle 
scribbling  apart,  is  really  one  of  the  most  beautiful  places  in  this  part 
of  the  country;  or  whether  the  goblins  of  the  Hollow,  accustomed  only 
to  tolerate  the  neighborhood  of  the  old  Dutch  families,  have  resented 
this  intrusion  into  their  solitudes  by  strangers  of  an  unknown  tongue, 
certain  it  is,  that  the  poor  paddys  have  been  most  grievously  harried 
for  some  time  past,  by  all  kinds  of  apparitions.  A  waggon  road  cut 
through  the  woods  and  leading  from  their  encampment  past  the 
haunted  church,  and  so  on  to  certain  whisky  establishments,  has  been 
especially  beset  by  five  fiends,  and  the  worthy  patlanders  on  their  way 
home  at  night  beheld  misshapen  monsters  whisking  about  their  paths, 
sometimes  resembling  men,  sometimes  boys,  sometimes  horses,  but 
invariably  without  heads  j  which  shows  that  they  must  be  lineal  de- 
scendants from  the  old  goblins  of  the  Hollow.  These  imps  of  dark- 
ness have  grown  more  and  vexatious  in  their  pranks ;  occasionally 
tripping  up,  or  knocking  down  the  unlucky  object  of  their  hostility. 
In  a  word,  the  whole  wood  has  been  such  a  scene  of  spooking  and 
diablerie,  that  the  paddys  will  not  any  longer  venture  out  of  their 
shanties  at  night,  and  a  whisky  shop  in  a  neighboring  village,  where 
they  used  to  hold  their  evening  gatherings,  has  been  obliged  to  shut 
up  for  want  of  custom.  This  is  a  true  story  and  you  may  account  for 
it  as  you  please.  The  corporation  of  your  city  should  look  to  it,  for 
if  this  harrying  continues  I  should  not  be  surprised  if  the  Paddies, 
being  cut  off  from  their  whisky,  should  entirely  abandon  the  sylvan 
regions  of  Sleepy  Hollow,  and  the  completion  of  the  Croton  water- 
works be  seriously  retarded. 

You  may  make  what  out  of  the  foregoing  you  can,  I  have  scribbled 
it  in  all  haste  as  breakfast  is  waiting  and  one  of  my  nephews  who 
takes  this  with  him  to  town  is  impatient  to  be  off. 

Yours  truly  W  I. 

P.  S.  The  above  story  was  told  me  last  evening  by  one  of  the 
young  engineers  who  was  on  a  visit  to  the  cottage." 

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Keats,  John.     Autograph  Letter  to  Georgiana  Augusta 
Keats,  the  wife  of  his  brother  George.     8  pages,  4to. 

This  journal-letter  was  written  on  January  13th,  15th,  17th,  and 
27th,  1820.  Excepting  the  portion  written  on  January  27th,  which 
is  lacking,  the  letter  is  given  below  in  full,  and  with  a  degree  of  accu- 
racy not  secured  for  it  in  any  previous  publication. 

"Thursday  Jany  13th  1820 — 
My  dear  Sister. 

By  the  time  you  receive  this  your  troubles  will  be  over.  I  wish 
you  knew  they  were  half  over.  I  mean  that  George  is  safe  in  Eng- 
land, and  in  good  health.  To  write  to  you  by  him  is  almost  like  fol- 
lowing ones  own  Letter  in  the  Mail.  That  it  may  not  be  quite  so  I 
will  leave  common  intelligence  out  of  the  question  and  write  wide  of 
him  as  I  can.  I  fear  I  must  be  dull  having  had  no  goodnatured  flip 
from  fortune's  finger  since  I  saw  you  and  00  side  way  comfort  in  the 
success  of  my  friends.  I  could  almost  promise  that  if  I  had  the 
means  I  would  accompany  George  back  to  America  and  pay  you  a 
Visit  of  a  few  Months.  1  should  not  think  much  of  the  time  or  my 
absence  from  my  Books,  or  I  have  no  right  to  think,  for  I  am  very 
idle:  but  then  I  ought  to  be  diligent  and  at  least  keep  myself  within 
the  reach  of  materials  for  diligence.  Diligence !  that  I  do  not  mean 
to  say,  1  should  say  dreaming  over  my  Books,  or  rather  other  peoples 
Books.  George  has  promised  to  bring  you  to  England  when  the  five 
years  have  elapsed.  I  regret  very  much  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to 
see  you  before  that  time :  and  even  then  I  must  hope  that  your 
affairs  will  be  in  so  prosperous  a  way  to  induce  you  to  stop  longer. 
Yours  is  a  hardish  fate  to  be  so  divided  from  your  friends  and  settled 
among  a  people  you  hate.  You  will  find  it  improve.  You  have  a 
heart  that  will  take  hold  of  your  children.  Even  Georges  absence 
will  make  things  better,  his  return  will  banish  what  must  be  your 
greatest  sorrow  and  at  the  same  time  minor  ones  with  it.  Robinson 
Crusoe  when  he  saw  himself  in  danger  of  perishing  on  the  Waters 
look'd  back  to  his  island  as  to  the  haven  of  his  Happiness  and  on 
gaining  it  once  more  was  more  content  with  his  Solitude.  We  smoke 
George  about  his  little  Girl,  he  runs  the  common  beaten  road  of 
every  father,  as  I  dare  say  you  do  of  every  Mother:  there  is  no  Child 
like  his  Child,  so  original !  original  forsooth  However  I  take  you  at 
your  words;  I  have  a  lively  faith  that  yours  is  the  very  gem  of  all 
children.     Ain't  I  its  unkle? 

On  Henry's  Marriage  there  was  apiece  of  Bride  cake  sent  me  —  it 
missed  its  way  —  I  suppose  the  Carrier  or  Coachman  was  a  Conjuror, 
and  wanted  it  for  his  own  private  use.  Last  Sunday  George  and  I 
dined  at  Millars.  There  were  your  Mother  and  Charles  with  Fool 
Lacon  Esq""  who  sent  the  sly  disinterested  shawl  to  Miss  Millar,  with 
his  own  heathen  name  engraved  in  the  Middle.  Charles  had  a  silk 
Handkerchief  belonging  to  a  Miss  Grover,  with  whom  he  pretended 
to  be  smitten  and  for  her  sake  kept  exhibiting  and  adoring  the  Hand- 

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kerchief  all  the  evening.  Fool  Lacon  Esq""  treated  it  with  a  little  ven- 
turesome trembling  contumely,  whereupon  Charles  set  him  quietly 
down  on  the  floor,  from  where  he  as  quietly  got  up.  This  process  was 
repeated  at  supper  time,  when  your  Mother  said,  "If  I  were  you, 
MJ"  Lacon  I  would  not  let  him  do  so."  Fool  Lacon  Esqr  did  not  offer 
any  remark.  He  will  undoubtedly  die  in  his  bed.  Your  Mother  did 
not  look  quite  so  well  on  Sunday.  Mrs.  Henry  Wylie  is  excessively 
quiet  before  people.  I  hope  she  is  always  so.  Yesterday  we  dined  at 
Taylor's,  in  Fleet  Street,  George  left  early  after  dinner  to  go  to 
Deptford.  He  will  make  all  square  there  for  me.  I  could  not  go 
with  him.  I  did  not  like  the  amusement.  Haslam  is  a  very  good 
fellow  indeed ;  he  has  been  excessively  anxious  and  kind  to  us.  But 
is  this  fair?  He  has  an  innamorata  at  Deptford  and  he  has  been 
wanting  me  for  some  time  past  to  see  her.  This  is  a  thing  which  it 
is  impossible  not  to  shirk.  A  Man  is  like  a  Magnet,  he  must  have  a 
repelling  end — so  how  am  I  to  see  Haslams  lady  and  family,  if  I 
even  went,  for  by  the  time  I  got  to  Greenwich  I  should  have  repell'd 
them  to  Blackheath  and  by  the  time  I  got  to  Deptford,  they  would  be 
on  Shooters  hill,  when  I  came  to  shooters  Hill,  they  would  alight  at 
Chatham  and  so  on  till  I  drove  them  into  the  Sea,  which  I  think 
might  be  indictable.  The  Evening  before  yesterday  we  had  a  piano 
forte  hop  at  Dilkes.  There  was  very  little  amusement  in  the  room 
but  a  Scotchman  to  hate.  Some  people  you  must  have  observed  have 
a  most  unpleasant  effect  upon  you  when  you  see  them  speaking  in 
profile — this  Scotchman  is  the  most  accomplished  fellow  in  this  way 
I  ever  met  with.  The  effect  was  complete.  It  went  down  like  a  dose 
of  bitters  and  I  hope  will  improve  my  digestion.  At  Taylor's  too, 
there  was  a  Scotchman  —  not  quite  so  bad  for  he  was  as  clean  as  he 
could  get  himself.  Not  having  succeeded  in  Drury  Lane  with  our 
Tragedy,  we  have  been  making  some  alterations  and  are  about  to  try 
Covent  Garden.  Brown  has  just  done  patching  up  the  Copy,  as  it  is 
altered.  The  only  reliance  I  had  on  it  was  in  Kean's  acting.  I  am 
not  afraid  it  will  be  damn'd  in  the  Garden.  You  said  in  one  of  your 
letters  that  there  was  nothing  but  Haydon  and  Co  in  mine.  There 
can  be  nothing  of  him  in  this,  for  I  never  see  him  or  Co.  George 
has  introduced  to  us  an  American  of  the  Name  of  Hart.  I  like  him 
in  a  Moderate  way.  He  was  at  Mrs.  Dilke's  party;  and  sitting  by 
me,  we  began  talking  about  english  and  american  ladies.  The  Miss 
Reynolds  and  some  of  their  friends  made  not  a  very  enticing  row  op- 
posite us.  I  bade  him  mark  them  and  form  his  judgement  of 
them.  I  told  him  I  hated  Englishmen  because  they  were  the  only 
Men  I  knew.  He  does  not  understand  this.  Who  would  be  Bragado- 
cio  to  Johnny  Bull?  Johnny's  house  is  his  Castle,  and  a  precious  dull 
castle  it  is.  What  a  many  Bull  Castles  there  are  in  So  and  so  Cres- 
cent! I  never  wish  myself  an  universal  visitor  and  news  monger 
but  when  I  write  to  you.  I  should  like  for  a  day  or  two  to  have 
somebody's  knowledge,  Mr.  Lacon's  for  instance  of  all  the  different 
folks  of  a  wide  acquaintance  to  tell  you  about.  Only  let  me  have  his 
knowledge  of  family  minutiae  and  I  would  set  them  in  a  proper  light 
but  bless  me  I  never  go  anywhere  —  my  pen  is  no  more  garulous  than 


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my  tongue — Any  third  person  would  think  I  was  addressing  myself 
to  a  Lover  of  Scandal.  But  we  know  we  do  not  love  scandal  but 
fun,  and  if  scandal  happens  to  be  fun,  that  is  no  fault  of  ours.  There 
were  very  pretty  pickings  for  me  in  Georges  letters  about  the  Prairie 
Settlement,  if  I  had  any  taste  to  turn  them  to  account  in  England.  I 
knew  a  friend  of  Miss  Andrews  yet  I  never  mentioned  her  to  him : 
for  after  I  had  read  the  letter  I  really  did  not  recollect  her  story. 
Now  I  have  been  sitting  here  a  half  hour  with  my  invention  at  work, 
to  say  something  about  your  Mother  or  Charles  or  Henry  but  it  is  in 
vain.  I  know  not  what  to  say.  Three  nights  since  George  went 
with  your  mother  to  the  play.  I  hope  she  will  soon  see  mine  acted. 
I  do  not  remember  ever  to  have  thanked  you  for  your  tassels  to  my 
Shakspeare — there  he  hangs  so  ably  supported  opposite  me.  I  thank 
you  now.  It  is  a  continual  memento  of  you.  If  you  should  have  a 
Boy  do  not  christen  him  John,  and  persuade  George  not  to  let  his 
partiality  for  me  come  across.  'Tis  a  bad  name,  and  goes  against  a 
man.  If  my  name  had  been  Edmund  I  should  have  been  more  for- 
tunate. 

I  was  surprised  to  hear  of  the  State  of  Society  at  Louisville,  it 
seems  you  are  just  as  ridiculous  there  as  we  are  here  —  threepenny 
parties,  halfpenny  Dances  —  the  best  thing  I  have  heard  of  is  your 
shooting,  for  it  seems  you  follow  the  Gun.  Give  my  Compliments  to 
Mrs  Audubon  and  tell  her  I  cannot  think  her  either  good  looking  or 
honest.  Tell  M^  Audubon  he's  a  fool  —  and  Briggs  that  'tis  well  I 
was  not  M""  A. 


Saturday  Janv  15  It  is  strange  that  George  having  to  stop  so 
short  a  time  in  England  I  should  not  have  seen  him  for  nearly  two 
days.  He  has  been  to  Haslam's  and  does  not  encourage  me  to  follow 
his  example.  He  had  given  promise  to  dine  with  the  same  party  to- 
morrow, but  has  sent  an  excuse  which  I  am  glad  of  as  we  shall  have 
a  pleasant  party  with  us  tomorrow.  We  expect  Charles  here  today. 
This  is  a  beautiful  day :  I  hope  you  will  not  quarrel  with  it  if  I  call 
it  an  american  one.  The  Sun  comes  upon  the  snow  and  makes  a 
prettier  candy  than  we  have  on  twelfth  cakes.  George  is  busy  this 
morning  in  making  copies  of  my  verses.  He  is  making  one  now  of 
an  Ode  to  the  nightingale,  which  is  like  reading  an  account  of  the 
black  hole  at  Calcutta  on  an  ice  bergh.  You  will  say  this  is  a  matter 
of  course,  I  am  glad  it  is.  I  mean  that  I  should  lilce  your  Brothers 
more,  the  more  I  know  them.  I  should  spend  much  more  time  with 
them  if  our  lives  were  more  run  in  parallel,  but  we  can  talk  but  on 
one  subject  that  is  you.  The  more  I  know  of  Men  the  more  I  know 
how  to  value  entire  liberality  in  any  of  them.  Thank  God  there  are 
a  great  many  who  will  sacrifice  their  worldly  interest  for  a  friend :  I 
wish  there  were  more  who  would  sacrifice  their  passions.  The  worst 
of  men  are  those  whose  self  interests  are  their  passion  —  the  next 
those  whose  passions  are  their  self-interest.  Upon  the  whole  I  dislike 
Mankind ;  whatever  people  on  the  other  side  of  the  question  may  ad- 


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vance  they  cannot  deny  that  they  are  always  surprised  at  hearing  of  a 
good  action  and  never  of  a  bad  one.  I  am  glad  you  have  something 
[to]  like  in  America,  Doves.  Gertrude  of  Wyoming  and  Birbeck's 
book  should  be  bound  up  together  like  a  Brace  of  Decoy  Ducks — one 
is  almost  as  poetical  as  the  other.  Precious  miserable  people  at  the 
Prairie.  I  have  been  sitting  in  the  Sun  while  I  wrote  this  till  it  be- 
came quite  oppressive,  this  is  very  odd  for  January.  The  vulcan  fire 
is  the  true  natural  heat  for  winter.  The  Sun  has  nothing  to  do  in 
winter  but  to  give  a  little  glooming  light  much  like  shade.  Our  Irish 
servant  has  piqued  me  this  morning  by  saying  that  her  Father  in  Ire- 
land is  very  much  like  my  Shakespeare  only  he  had  more  colour  than 
the  Engraving.  You  will  find  on  Georges  return  that  I  have  not  been 
neglecting  your  affairs.  The  delay  was  unfortunate,  not  faulty ;  — 
perhaps  by  this  time  you  have  received  my  three  last  letters  not  one 
of  which  had  reach'd  before  George  sail'd.  I  would  give  two  pence 
to  have  been  over  the  world  as  much  as  he  has.  I  wish  I  had  money 
enough  to  do  nothing  but  travel  about  for  years.  Were  you  now  in 
England  I  dare  say  you  would  be  able  (setting  aside  the  pleasure  you 
would  have  in  seeing  your  mother)  to  suck  out  more  amusement  for 
Society  than  I  am  able  to  do.  To  me  it  is  all  as  dull  here  as  Louis- 
ville could  be.  I  am  tired  of  the  Theatres.  Almost  all  parties  I 
may  chance  to  fall  into  I  know  by  heart.  I  know  the  different  styles 
of  talk  in  different  places,  what  subjects  will  be  started  how  it  will 
proceed,  like  an  acted  play,  from  the  first  to  the  last  act.  If  I  go  to 
Hunt's,  I  run  my  head  into  many  times  heard  puns  and  music.  To 
Haydon's  worn  out  discourses  of  poetry  and  painting.  The  Miss 
Reynolds  I  am  afraid  to  speak  to  for  fear  of  some  sickly  reiteration  of 
Phrase  or  Sentiment.  When  they  were  at  the  dance  the  other  night 
I  tried  manfully  to  sit  near  and  talk  to  them,  but  to  not  purpose,  and 
if  I  had  'twould  have  been  to  no  purpose  still.  My  question  or  ob- 
servation must  have  been  an  old  one,  and  the  rejoinder  very  antique 
indeed.  At  Dilke's  I  fall  foul  of  Politics.  'Tis  best  to  remain  aloof 
from  people  and  like  their  good  parts  without  being  eternally  troubled 
with  the  dull  process  of  their  every  day  Lives,  When  once  a  person 
has  smok'd  the  vapidness  of  the  routine  of  Society  he  must  either 
have  self  interest  or  the  love  of  some  sort  of  distinction  to  keep  him  in 
good  humour  with  it.  All  I  can  say  is  that  standing  at  Charing  Cross 
and  looking  east  west  north  and  south  I  see  nothing  but  dulness.  I 
hope  while  I  am  young  to  live  retired  in  the  country,  when  I  grow  in 
years  and  have  a  right  to  be  idle,  I  shall  enjoy  cities  more.  If  the 
American  Ladies  are  worse  than  the  English  they  must  be  very  bad. 
You  say  you  should  like  your  Emily  brought  up  here.  You  had  bet- 
ter bring  her  up  yourself.  You  know  a  good  number  of  english 
ladies  what  encomium  could  you  give  of  half  a  dozen  of  them.  The 
greater  part  seem  to  me  downright  American.  I  have  known  more 
than  one  M^s  Audubon.  Their  affectation  of  fashion  and  politeness 
cannot  transcend  ours.  Look  at  our  Cheapside  Tradesmens  sons  and 
daughters — only  fit  to  be  taken  off  by  a  plague.  I  hope  now  soon 
to  come  to  the  time  when  I  shall  never  be  forced  to  walk  through  the 
City  and  hate  as  I  walk. 


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Monday,  Jany  17  George  had  a  quick  rejoinder  to  his  Letter  of 
excuse  to  Haslam,  so  we  had  not  his  company  yesterday  which  I  was 
sorry  for  as  there  was  our  old  set.  I  know  three  witty  people  all  dis- 
tinct in  their  excellence  —  Rice,  Reynolds  and  Richards.  Rice  is  the 
wisest,  Reynolds  the  playfuUest,  Richards  the  out-o'-the-wayest. 
The  first  makes  you  laugh  and  think,  the  second  makes  you  laugh 
and  not  think,  the  third  puzzles  your  head.  I  admire  the  first,  I  en- 
joy the  second,  I  stare  at  the  third.  The  first  is  Claret,  the  second 
Ginger-beer,  the  third  Creme  de  Byrapymdrag.  The  first  is  inspired 
by  Minerva,  the  second  by  Mercury,  the  third  by  Harlequin  Epigram, 
Esq^  The  first  is  neat  in  his  dress,  the  second  slovenly,  the  third 
uncomfortable.  The  first  speaks  adagio,  the  second  allegretto,  the 
third  both  together.  The  first  is  swiftean,  the  second  Tom  cribean, 
the  third  Shandean — and  yet  these  three  Eans  are  not  three  Eans 
but  one  Ean. 

Charles  came  on  Saturday  but  went  early:  he  seems  to  have 
schemes  and  plans  and  wants  to  get  off.  He  is  quite  right,  I  am  glad 
to  see  him  employed  at  business.  You  remember  I  wrote  you  a 
Story  about  a  woman  named  Alice  being  made  young  again  —  or  some 
such  stuff.  In  your  next  Letter  tell  me  whether  I  gave  it  as  my  own 
or  whether  I  gave  it  as  a  matter  Brown  was  employed  upon  at  the 
time.  He  read  it  over  to  George  the  other  day,  and  George  said  he 
had  heard  it  all  before.  So  Brown  suspects  I  have  been  giving  you  his 
Story  as  my  own.  I  should  like  to  set  him  right  in  it  by  your  Evi- 
dence. George  has  not  returned  from  Town  when  he  does  I  shall 
tax  his  memory.  We  had  a  young,  long,  raw,  lean  Scotchman  with 
us  yesterday  calld  Thornton.  Rice,  for  fun  or  for  mistake  would  per- 
sist in  calling  him  Stevenson.  I  know  three  people  of  no  wit  at  all, 
each  distinct  in  his  excellence.  A,  B,  and  C.  A  is  the  foolishest,  B 
the  sulkiest,  C  is  a  negative.  A  makes  you  yawn,  B  makes  you  hate, 
as  for  C  you  never  see  him  though  he  is  six  feet  high.  I  bear  the  first, 
I  forbear  the  second  I  am  not  certain  that  the  third  is.  The  first  is 
gruel,  the  second  Ditch  water,  the  third  is  spilt  —  he  ought  to  be 
wiped  up.  A  is  inspired  by  Jack-o'  the-clock  —  B,  has  been  drill'd  by 
a  russian  serjeant  —  C  —  they  say  is  not  his  Mothers  true  child  but  that 
she  bought  him  of  the  Man  who  cries.  Young  lambs  to  sell.  Twang 
dillo  dee  This  you  must  know  is  the  Amen  to  nonsense.  I  know  a 
good  many  places  where  Amen  should  be  scratched  out,  rubbd  over 
with  po[u]nce  made  of  Momus's  little  finger  bones  and  in  its  place 
Twang-dillo-dee  written.  This  is  the  word  I  shall  henceforth  be 
tempted  to  write  at  the  end  of  most  modern  Poems.  Every  Ameri- 
can Book  ought  to  have  it.  It  would  be  a  good  distinction  in  Society. 
My  Lords  Wellington,  Castlereagh  and  Canning  and  many  more 
would  do  well  to  wear  Twang-dillo  dee  on  their  Backs  instead  of  rib- 
bands at  their  Button  holes.  How  many  people  would  go  side  ways 
along  walls  and  quickset  hedges  to  keep  their  Twang-dillo-dee  out  of 
sight,  or  wear  large  pig-tails  to  hide  it.  However  there  would  be  so 
many  that  the  Twang  dillo  dees  would  keep  one  another  in  Counte- 
nance—  which  Brown  cannot  do  for  me — I  have  fallen  away  lately. 
Thieves  and  Murderers  would  gain  rank  in  the  world,  for  would  any 


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one  of  them  have  the  poorness  of  spirit  to  condescend  to  be  a  Twang 
dillo  dee?  "I  have  robbed  many  a  dwelling-house,  I  have  killed 
many  a  fowl  many  a  goose  and  many  a  Man  (would  such  a  gentle- 
man say)  but  thank  heaven  I  was  never  yet  a  Twang  dillo  dee." 
Some  philosophers  in  the  Moon,  who  spy  at  our  Globe  as  we  do  at 
theirs,  say  that  Twang  dillo  dee  is  written  in  large  letters  on  our 
Globe  of  Earth,  They  say  the  beginning  of  the  T  is  just  on  the  spot 
where  London  stands.  London  being  built  within  the  Flourish — wan 
reach  down  and  slant  as  far  a  Timbuctoo  in  Africa,  the  tail  of  the 
G  goes  slap  across  the  Atlantic  into  the  Rio  della  Plata  —  the  re- 
mainder of  the  letters  wrap  round  New  Holland,  and  the  last  e  ter- 
minates on  land  we  have  not  yet  discovered.  However,  I  must  be 
silent;  these  are  dangerous  times  to  libel  a  man  in,  much  more  a 
world. " 


383 

Keats,  John.     Autograph  Letter  to  Keats  from  his  friend 

Benjamin  Robert  Haydon.     2^^  pages,  4to,  and  address. 

The  letter,  of  which  only  the  signature  and  the  postscript  are  in 
Haydon's  handwriting,  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Bridgewater  Sept.  25* 
My  dear  Keats 

Here  I  am  as  Shakespeare  says  '  Chewing  the  cud  of  sweet  &  bitter 
fancy,'  solitary  in  the  midst  of  society  with  no  human  being  to  ex- 
change a  notion  with  except  my  sister  and  she  begins  to  be  so  occupied 
with  her  little  brats  that  if  I  attempt  to  quote  Shakespeare  to  her  I 
am  ordered  into  silence  for  fear  I  should  wake  the  children. — I  came 
here  for  repose  of  mind  —  as  I  am  now  getting  better  I  am  again  on 
the  rack  to  be  again  in  the  midst  of  all  the  objects  of  my  ambition. — 
I  am  getting  about  again  my  hero  —  and  I  hope  to  God  I  shall  yet 
finish  my  picture  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  of  you. — I  am  longing  to 
be  among  you  —  and  hear  your  account  of  your  last  Tour  —  if  it  has 
done  as  much  good  to  the  inside  as  the  outside  of  your  head  you  will 
feel  the  effects  of  it  as  long  as  you  live. —  I  shall  leave  this  place  to- 
morrow or  Monday  &  hope  to  be  in  Town  by  Wednesday  at  furthest.  I 
hope  your  brother  Tom  does  not  suffer  much  —  poor  fellow — I  shall 
never  forget  his  look  when  I  saw  him  last. — I  can  never  say  as  much 
when  I  dictate  a  letter  as  when  I  write  it  myself — and  this  I  hope  will 
be  a  sufficient  excuse  for  not  writing  a  longer  one  to  you  —  at  any  rate 
this  is  better  treatment  than  you  gave  me  when  you  went  on  your 
Tour. — Believe  me  my  dear  Keats  most  affectionately  &  sincerely 

Yours  ever 

B.  R.  Haydon. 

P.  S.  to  give  you  an  idea  of  the  elegant  taste  of  this  place  the  other 
dav,  ill  company  when  I  illustrated  something  by  a  quotation,  one  of 
tKe  company  said  with  great  simplicity,  '  Lord  Mr.  Haydon,  you  are 
full  of  scraps.' — adieu  —  my  eyes  will  not  permit  me." 

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384 

Keats,  John.     Autograph   Letter  to  Keats  from  his  friend 
John  Hamilton  Reynolds.     3  pages,  8vo,  and  address. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 
"My  Dear  Keats 

I  was  most  delighted  at  seeing  you  yesterday, —  for  I  hardly  knew 
how  I  was  to  meet  with  you,  situated  as  you  are,  and  confined  as  I 
am.  I  wish  I  could  have  stayed  longer  with  you.  As  to  the  Poem  I 
am  of  all  things  anxious  that  you  should  publish  it,  for  its  complete- 
ness will  be  a  full  answer  to  all  the  ignorant  malevolence  of  cold  lying 
Scotchmen  and  stupid  Englishmen.  The  overweening  struggle  to 
oppress  you  only  shews  the  world  that  so  much  of  endeavour  cannot 
be  directed  to  nothing.  Men  do  not  set  their  muscles,  and  strain 
their  sinews  to  break  a  straw.  I  am  confident,  Keats,  that  the  Pot  of 
Basil  hath  that  simplicity  and  quiet  pathos,  which  are  of  sure  Sov- 
ereignty over  all  hearts.  I  must  say  that  it  would  delight  me  to 
have  you  prove  yourself  to  the  world,  what  we  know  you  to  be ;  to 
have  you  annul  the  Quarterly  Review,  by  the  best  of  all  answers. 
When  I  see  you  I  will  give  you  the  Poem,  and  pray  look  it  over  with 
that  eye  to  the  littlenesses  which  the  world  are  so  fond  of  excepting 
to  (though  I  confess  with  that  word  altered  which  1  mentioned  I  see 
nothing  that  can  be  cavilled  at) — And  let  us  have  the  Tale  put  forth, 
now  that  an  interest  is  aroused.  One  or  two  of  your  Sonnets  you 
might  print,  I  am  sure — And  I  know  that  I  may  suggest  to  you, 
which  —  because  you  can  decide  as  you  like  [a  portion  of  the  sheet  is 
lacking  here]  ...  I  give  over  all  intention  and  you  ought  to  be  alone. 
I  can  never  write  anything  now  —  my  mind  is  taken  the  other  way: 
—  But  I  shall  set  my  heart  on  having  you,  high,  as  you  ought  to  be. 
Do  you  get  Fatne, — and  I  shall  have  it  in  being  your  affectionate 
and  steady  friend.  There  is  no  one  I  am  more  interested  in  —  and 
there  is  no  one  that  I  have  more  pleasure  in  communicating  my  own 
happiness  to.  You  will  gratify  me  much  by  letting  me  have,  when- 
ever you  have  leisure,  copies  of  what  you  write;  — for  tnore  than  my- 
self have  a  sincere  interest  in  you.  When  shall  I  see  you  —  &  when 
shall  I  go  with  you  to  Severn's 

Your  ever  affectionate 
Wedn  Morn.  J.  H,  Reynolds" 

385 
Keats,  John.     Complete   Holograph   Manuscript  of  the 
Poem,  To  Charles  Cowden  Clarke,  dated  1816.     Written  on  4 
pages  of  4to  letter-paper.     Size  of  each  page,  7^x9^  inches. 

The  rarity  of  Keats  manuscripts  is  well  known. 

This  is  believed  to  be  the  first  time  that  the  manuscript  of  a  complete 
poem  by  Keats  has  been  sold  at  auction  in  this  country.  A  facsimile 
of  the  whole  poem  will  be  found  on  the  4  pages  following. 


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386 

Keats,  John.  Autograph  Letter  by  Joseph  Severn  to 
Keats's  niece,  Mrs.  Philip  Speed.  3  pages,  small  8vo,  and 
address. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Rome  Sept  jst  ,863 
My  dear  Madam 

This  is  a  line  to  assure  you  that  I  am  the  'one  devoted  friend  un- 
till  death'  of  your  illustrious  relative  'John  Keats'  &  that  it  has  grati- 
fied me  highly  to  be  addressed  by  you  in  consequence  of  your  read- 
ing my  essay  'on  the  Vicissitudes  of  Keats's  Fame' — As  I  had  the 
happiness  to  meet  his  sister  here  (Madame  d'Llanos)  after  45  years! 
I  trust  it  may  be  also  my  happiness  to  meet  some  others  of  his  family 
in  Rome,  where  I  am  likely  to  remain  all  my  life,  &  where  I  first 
came  in  his  dear  company  in  Nov  1820  &  on  his  account — altho'  on 
my  part  so  mad  a  thing  as  it  seemed  at  the  time  &  was  pronounced  so 
by  most  of  my  fds;  yet  it  was  the  best  &  perhaps  the  only  step  to  in- 
sure my  artistic  career,  which  no  doubt  was  watched  &  blessed  by 
His  dear  Spirit,  for  I  remained  20  years  without  returning  to  England 
&  during  that  time  the  Patrons  I  most  valued  came  to  me  as  'the 
fds  of  Keats' — These  have  remained  faithfull  to  me  &  to  mine  no 
doubt  inspired  by  the  revered  name  of  the  Poet. — The  success  of  my 
family  (3  sons  &  3  daughters)  has  turned  on  this.  The  chief  of  these 
Patrons  I  may  mention  is  the  present  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer 
(William  Gladstone) 

At  this  moment  I  only  know  of  two  personal  f^^*  of  the  poet  besides 
myself  to  be  now  living — M'^  Charles  Cowden  Clark  who  is  at  Genoa 
&  M''  John  Taylor  (the  Publisher)  in  London. 

It  may  be  also  that  f^s  of  yours  [one  word  torn  from  sheet  here] 
chance  to  be  visiting  Rome  &  in  that  case  I  beg  you  to  give  them  a 
note  to  me. 

This  quiet  note  I  fear  may  find  you  in  the  midst  of  wars  misery  if 
it  ever  finds  you  at  all  &  I  hope  it  may  be  the  means  of  procuring  me 
another  letter  from  you  or  yours  to  yours  most  truly 

Joseph  Severn 
For  M^-s  Speed." 


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Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth.    Autograph  Letter  to 

Robert  C.  Winthrop,  signed  H.  W.  L.     4  pages,  small  8vo, 

Carlisle,  June  14,  1868. 

"On  Saturday  an  Address  was  made  me  by  the  Carlisle  Literary 
Society,  and  I  had  to  reply.  It  was  the  first  speech  I  ever  made 
in  my  life,  and  I  mean  it  shall  be  the  last.  It  was  only  an  inch  long ; 
but  while  impending  it  cast  a  shadow  over  my  life  for  three  days  I " 


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Lowell,  James  Russell.    Autograph  Letter  in  Rhyme. 

I  page,  small  8vo. 

"  My  dear  Mr.  Regent 
if  there's  an  ingregient 
in  a  poor  devil's  duties 
gives  him  hard  thoughts  of  you,  'tis 
this  ciphering  and  sorting 
biennial  reporting: 
my  experiment  crucial 
comes  tardy  as  usual 
from  yours  (as  you  know  well)  most  cordially 

Lowell. 
Elmwood, 
Tuesday." 

389 
Lowell,  James  Russell.     Autograph  Letter,    i^  pages, 
small  8vo. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Elmwood,  13th  April,  1872. 
Dear  Sir, 

if  today  had  been  pleasant,  I  should  have  answered  your 
letter  in  person.  For  the  last  few  weeks  my  mind  has  been  too  much 
taken  up  with  nearer  matters. 

The  question  of  a  new  volume  is  one  of  time  &  mood  rather  than  of 
money.  I  should  like  very  much  to  get  one  ready  but  cannot  quite 
yet  be  sure  that  I  shall  be  able.  To  a  man  of  my  rooted  habits, 
the  thought  of  going  to  Europe  is  something  which  wonderfully  dis- 
turbs the  mind  &  scatters  thought.  You  see  I  should  have  to 
(mainly)  rewrite  whatever  I  put  in  the  book  &  there  is  the  difficulty. 
I  had  better  say  'no'  with  an  intention  to  do  'yes'  if  I  can. 

Very  truly  yours 

J.  R.  Lowell." 

390 
Lowell,  James  Russell.    Autograph  Letter  to  Robert  C. 
Winthrop,  signed.    2  ^  pages,  small  8vo,  Legation  of  the  United 
States,  London,  20*^  April,  1882. 

"  As  to  the  Royal  Wedding,  it  is  more  than  doubtful  whether  I  am 
invited  myself.  My  predecessor  was  not  to  the  marriage  of  the  Duke 
of  Connaught  &  though  I  may  be  better  knftwn  to  the  Duke  of  Al- 
bany than  Mr  Welsh  —  that  would  probably  make  no  difference  in  a 

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matter  of  etiquette.    The  Crown  having  lost  all  the  substance  of  pre- 
rogative clings  all  the  more  closely  to  the  Shadow. 

I  hope  I  shall  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  something  of  you  while 
you  are  in  London  if  Ireland  leaves  me  any  time  or  if  the  Irish  Re- 
public doesn't  send  me  home  in  Chains." 


391 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.    Autograph  Letter.     1  page,  410, 
and  address,  to  his  publisher,  Mr.  Oilier.     Postmarked  26  Nov. 
1817. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Marlow,  Nov.  25,  1817. 
Dear  Sir, 

I  have  not  yet  seen  the  announce  [sic]  of  Laon  &  Cythna  in  the 
public  papers. — Be  so  good  as  not  to  let  it  be  delayed  a  day  longer, 
as  the  books  are  now  ready. 

I  wish  a  parcel  of  twelve  to  be  sent  to  me  as  soon  as  you  can  get 
them  put  in  boards.  If  you  will  send  me  the  account  of  the  expense 
of  the  advertisements  I  will  transmit  you  the  money  the  moment 
they  appear  —  Dear  Sir 

Your  most  obe^J- 

Percy  B.  Shelley. 
Send  one  to  Hunt  the  first  thing. —  Dante?  &  the  Spectator?" 

The  sheet  on  which  this  letter  is  written  is  much  stained. 

393 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.    Autograph  Letter,    i  page,  410, 
and  address,  July  17,  182 1,  to  his  publishers.  Oilier  &  Co. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 
"Dear  Sir 

I  send  you  the  bill  of  lading  of  the  box  containing  Adonais:  and  I 
send  also  a  copy  to  yourself  by  Mr.  Gisborne  who  probably  will  ar- 
rive before  the  ship  —  Pray  put  the  inclosed  in  the  post. — 

I  add  a  few  words  on  the  subject  of  my  last  letter. —  I  think  it  of 
consequence  that  the  circumstances  of  Mrs  S.'s  having  written  the 
work  I  propose  to  you  should  be  kept  a  profound  secret,  &  I  repose 
upon  my  confidence  in  you  to  that  effect.  On  consideration,  I  think 
that  it  ought  not  to  be  announced  as  written  by  the  author  of  Frank- 
enstein :  it  bears  every  indication  of  the  greatest  popularity  &  many 
people  might  have  been  prejudiced  by  Frankenstein  against  a  second 
attempt  of  the  same  author.  The  work  I  send  you,  has  been  seen  in 
part  by  M''-  Gisborne,  &  has  excited,  as  it  must  in  every  one,  the 
deepest  interest. 

Dear  Sir, 

yours  very  truly 

P.  B.  Shelley." 


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395 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.    Autograph  Letter.    3  pages,  410, 
and  address,  to  his  publishers,  OUier  &  Co. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Pisa  Jan  11  1821  [1822] 
Dear  Sir 

I  cannot  but  express  my  surprize  at  the  silence  you  have  thought 
proper  to  observe  respecting  the  various  subjects  on  which  I  have 
written  to  you  in  the  course  of  the  last  six  months. —  My  only  motive 
in  breaking  it  on  the  present  occasion  is  to  inform  you  that,  consider- 
ing your  total  neglect  as  a  negative  upon  my  last  modification  of  the 
proposal  for  M"^  Shelley's  novel,  I  have  sent  it  to  M''  Godwin  with 
liberty  to  dispose  of  it  to  the  best  advantage,  &  should  you  still  be 
desirous  of  publishing  it,  you  may  treat  with  him  for  the  copyright. 
— You  will  at  once  see  how  little  reason  you  have  to  complain  of  this 
conduct  on  my  part,  when  I  tell  you  that  two  months  elapsed  between 
the  completion  of  the  novel  &  its  being  sent  to  England  in  expecta- 
tion of  your  answer. 

With  respect  to  my  own  publications. —  I  had  exceedingly  desired 
the  immediate  publication  of  Hellas  from  public  no  less  than  private 
reasons ;  but  as  post  day  after  post  day  passes  &  I  receive  no  proof 
sheets  of  it,  as  I  had  requested,  I  suppose  I  might  as  well  not  have 

relied  upon  your  spontaneous  offers  to  execute  my  commissions. 

I  was  also,  more  than  commonly  interested  in  the  success  of  Adonais ; 
—  I  do  not  mean  the  sale,  but  the  effect  produced — and  I  should 
have  [been]  glad  to  have  received  some  communication  from  you  re- 
specting it. — I  do  not  know  even,  whether  it  has  been  published,  & 
still  less  whether  it  has  been  republished  with  the  alterations  I  sent. 

The  Historical  Tragedy  of  Charles  the  first  will  be  ready  by  the 
spring.  It  is  my  intention  to  sell  the  copyright  of  this  poem  and  as 
you  have  always  been  my  publisher,  I  give  you  the  refusal  of  it. — 
My  reason  for  selling  it,  to  speak  frankly,  is,  that  the  bookseller 
should  have  sufficient  interest  in  its  success  to  give  it  a  fair  chance. 
Should  you  not  think  it  worth  while  to  make  any  offer  for  it ;  of 
course  you  will  absolve  me  from  levity  in  applying  to  another  pub- 
lisher. I  ought  to  say  that  the  Tragedy  promises  to  be  good,  as 
Tragedies  go;  &  that  it  is  not  coloured  by  the  party  spirit  of  the 
author:  how  far  it  may  be  popular  I  cannot  judge. 

Should  you  pay  the  same  attention  to  my  present  letter  as  its  late 
predecessors  have  received  from  you ;  you  will  scarcely  think  it  ex- 
traordinary that  this  should  be  the  last  time  I  intend  to  trouble  you  — 

Dear  Sir   I  have  the  honour  to  be 

Your  obedient  humble  ser*^ 

Percy  B.  Shelley." 

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394 
Shelley,  Mary  Wollstonecraft.    Autograph  Letter  to 
_         Charles  Oilier,    i  page,  and  address,  small  8vo,  Kentish  Town, 
^•^  Monday.     Postmarked  February  19,  1825. 

"Mr.  Colburn  mentioned  to  my  father  that  there  was  a  Romance 
entitled  The  Last  Man,  in  three  thin  volumes  published  some  time 
ago      Now  that  I  have  finished  mine  I  should  like  to  see  this." 

395 
Shelley,  Mary  Wollstonecraft.    Autograph  Letter  to 
C  Charles  Oilier,  signed  Mary  Shelley,     i  page,  small  8vo,  and 

address,  Kentish  Town,  5  Dec.  [182 5 J. 

"I  wrote  some  days  ago  requesting  you  to  send  me  (from  Mr. 
Colburn)  Wordsworth's  Poems  and  Keats's  first  publication  contain- 
ing Sleep  and  Poetry. —  I  am  afraid  some  mistake  has  occurred — 
and  I  shall  soon  want  the  books  in  the  correction  of  a  proof  sheet  — " 

396 
Shelley,   Mary   Wollstonecraft.    Autograph    Letter, 

signed  M.  Shelley,     i  y^  pages,  small  8vo,  Putney,  2  July. 

"The  Triumph  of  Life  was  wr?//^«  in  1822  so  that  you  caflnot 
give  my  husband  the  pas  over  Lord  Byron  in  a  thing  which  after  all 
is  but  a  trifle." 

397 
Shelley,    Mary   Wollstonecraft.     Autograph    Letter, 

signed  M.  Shelley.    2)^  P^^ges,  small  8vo,  Kentish  Town,  16  Jan. 
Refers  to  "Frankenstein." 

398 

Shelley,  Mary  Wollstonecraft.     Autograph  Letter  to 

George  W.  Portman,  signed  Mary  Shelley,     i  ^/^  pages,  small 

8vo,  n.  p.,  n.  d. 

"It  has  been  my  constant  endeavour  to  withdraw  myself  person- 
ally from  public  notice  —  and  I  flatter  myself  that  I  have  so  far  suc- 
ceeded as  to  be  quite  sure  that  the  portrait  of  so  insignificant  a  per- 
son would  possess  no  attraction  for  the  numerous  readers  of  the 
Magazine.  As  to  a  Memoir,  as  my  sex  has  precluded  all  idea  of  my 
fulfilling  public  employment  I  do  not  see  what  the  public  have  to  do 
with  me  —  I  am  a  great  enemy  to  the  prevailing  custom  of  dragging 
private  life  before  the  world." 

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Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.  Autograph  Letter  to  Tick- 
nor  and  Fields,  signed  Edmund  C.  Stedman.  i  ^  pages,  8vo, 
New  York,  August  ii,  1868,  accepting  a  "proposition  for  pub- 
lishing my  new  book." 


400 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.  Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood,  signed  E.  C.  Stedman.  i  y^  pages,  4to,  New  York, 
June  17,  1873,  entirely  in  relation  to  his  forthcoming  book  of 
poems. 


401 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.    Autograph  directions  "  To 
the  Printer,"  signed  E.  C.  Stedman.     3  pages,  narrow  8vo. 

Most  explicit  directions  are  here  given  for  the  arrangement  of  the 
^stanzas,  style  of  type,  etc.,  for  a  forthcoming  book  of  the  Poet. 


402 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.  Autograph  verse  from  "  Pan 
in  Wall  Street,"  signed  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman.  i  page, 
8vo,  New  York,  December  5,  1881. 


403 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.   Autograph  Letter  to  James 
T.  Fields,  signed  J.  G.  W.     i^  pages,  small  8vo,  n.  p.,  n.  d. 

"I  have  an  impression  that  this  verse  in  'The  Countess'  is  a  little 
stilted  .... 

Would  it  not  be  a  trifle  more  natural  and  in  keeping  to  say  instead : 
Her  simple  daily  life  he  saw 
By  homeliest  duties  tried 
In  all  things  by  an  untaught  law 
Of  fitness  justified." 


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404 

Whittier,   John   Greenleaf.    Autograph    Letter,  signed 
2S^        J-  G-  W.     I  page,  small  i6mo,  n.  p.,  n.  d. 
/ 

A  hastily  written  note  of  no  particular  interest. 


405 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.   Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood.     2  pages,  small  8vo. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

**  Amesbury 
28'h  12  mo,  1870 
Dear  fd.  Osgood 

I  hardly  know  what  to  say  to  you.  Everything  with  me  is  so  un- 
certain that  I  hardly  dare  promise  anything  positively.  The  '  Poetry 
for  Children '  I  believe  I  did  half  promise  M""  F.  I  have  had  in  mind 
a  volume  of  Ballads  under  the  title  of  'Indian  Summer,'  strung  to- 
gether by  a  thread  of  narative  [sic]  &  description,  somewhat  like 
The  Tent  on  the  Beach.  Yet,  as  all  depends  on  my  health,  and  that 
is  a  very  slight  dependence  any  how,  I  am  afraid  to  have  you  an- 
nounce my  dimly  defined  project,  as  a  positive  matter.  It  might  be 
safer  to  %?Ly  probably. 

I  shall  be  in  Boston,  if  I  am  able,  about  the  middle  of  the  next 
month. 

yrs  truly 

John  G.  Whittier" 


406 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.  Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood.     I  page,  small  8vo. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"  Amesbury 

8*  4  mo  187s 
My  dear  Friend 

Have  you  printed  off  the  '  Mabel  Martin  '  ?  It  seems  to  me  proper 
to  say  a  word  in  a  note  about  the  change  in  name  &c  in  the  poem. 

And  there  is  a  slight  error  in  punctuation  in  one  of  the  verses,  and 
one  word  misspelled :  and  in  the  proem  or  introductory  stanza  I  wish 
to  make  one  or  two  verbal  corrections. 

Let  me  know  whether  I  am  too  late  &  oblige  thy  friend 

J.  G.  W." 

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407 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.    Autograph  Letter  to  Mary 
Howitt.     3  pages,  small  8vo,  with  addressed  envelope. 

"Oak  Knoll 

Danvers 

igth  7th  Ma  1877 
My  dear  Friend 
Mary  Howitt 
I  am  more  sorry  than  I  can  tell  about  the  unlucky  *  error  i  the  bill ' 
to  which  thy  kind  note,  just  rec^,  refers.     My  head  &  eyes  are  too 
ailing  for  proof  reading  and  my  own   poems  have  in  consequence, 
often  appeared  in  a  questionable  shape.    I  will  try  to  have  the  matter 
set  right.     I  know  too  well  just  how  an  author  feels  about  such  per- 
versions of  his  meaning  &  words. 

Did  I  write  thy  husband  about  his  admirable  Peace  Poem?  If  I  did 
not  I  meant  to  do  it.     It  is  a  strong  &  powerful  plea  for  Peace,  and 

was  never  more  needed  than  now 

I  wish  I  had  the  Arabian  Nights  carpet  to  transport  me  to  your 
beautiful  Tyrolese  summer  home.  I  should  be  so  glad  to  shake  hands 
with  you. 

I  can  truly  say  with  much  love  I  am  your  friend 

John  G.  Whittier" 

408 
Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.  Autograph  Letter  to  James 
R.  Osgood.     3  pages,  small  4to. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Danvers  2d  mo  24  1882 
My  dear  James  Osgood 

I  was  pleased  with  thy  plan  of  publishing  an  edition  of  English 
Poets  with  biographical  &  critical  introductions,  and  would  have  been 
glad  to  have  some  little  connection  with  it.  But  I  fear  I  must  give 
up  the  idea  of  attempting  it.  More  than  a  year  ago  I  was  induced  to 
consent  to  write  an  introduction  to  a  volume  of  Mrs  Child's  Letters, 
and  had  two  or  three  times  essayed  to  do  it,  but  was  unable  to  pro- 
ceed. Since  my  return  home,  I  have  tried  to  finish  the  sketch,  but 
find  that  I  cannot  write  without  suflfering  &  exhaustion.  As  I  can 
only  write  in  a  fragmentary  way,  a  few  minutes  at  a  time,  it  is  more 
difficult  to  write  prose  than  verse.  I  am  more  sorry  than  any  one  else 
can  be,  but  I  must  yield  to  the  inevitable.  The  work  I  wish  I  could 
do,  will  no  doubt  be  better  done  by  others,  for  I  am  exceptionally 
weak  in  criticism  &  analysis. 

I  wish  to  say  here,  that  in  common  with  all  who  have  been  con- 
nected with  thee  as  their  publisher,  I  entertain  a  grateful  sense  of  thy 
uniform  kindness  and  liberality.  To  thee  &  Fields  I  owe  much.  You 
have  been  my  friends  as  well  as  my  publishers.  With  every  good  wish 
for  thee,  I  am  truly  &  gratefully  thy  old  friend 

John  G.  Whittier" 


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409 

.^  Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.  Autograph  Letter,    i  J^  pages, 


i^  small  8vo 


Z/. 


The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

<•  Oak  Knoll 

Danvers 

Mass 
8*  mo.  26.  1886 
Dear  Friend 

The  entire  writings  of  mine  are  published  in  the  '  Household  Edi- 
tion '  of  my  Poems,  and  in  the  two  volumes  of  Prose  works,  pub- 
lished by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co  Boston.  I  thank  thee  for  the  kind 
words  of  thy  letter  and  for  so  truly  interpreting  my  feeling  in  regard 
[to]  the  people  of  the  South,  and  those  who  differed  from  me  in 
political  opinions  for 

— '  If  my  words  were  harsh  at  times 
They  spared  my  fellow  men :    their  blows 
Fell  only  upon  crimes.' 

I  am  very  truly  thy 

friend 

John  G.  Whittier" 


410 

Wordsworth,  William.     Autograph    Letter    to    James 
Tobin.     3  pages,  410,  and  address. 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"AUfoxden  6*  March  [1798] 
My  dear  Tobin, 

I  have  long  wished  to  thank  you  for  your  letter  &  Gustavus  Vasa. 
They  were  both  very  acceptable  to  me  in  this  solitude.  The  Tragedy 
is  a  strange  composition  of  genius  &  absurdity;  as  you  have  not  read 
it  I  will  take  care  of  it  for  you.  I  am  perfectly  easy  about  the  thea- 
tre, if  t  had  no  other  method  of  employing  myself  Mr  Lewis's  suc- 
cess would  have  thrown  me  into  despair.  The  Castle  Spectre  is  a 
Spectre  indeed.  Clothed  with  the  flesh  &  blood  of  400  £  received 
from  the  treasury  of  the  theatre  it  may  in  the  eyes  of  the  author  & 
his  friend  appear  very  lovely.  There  is  little  need  to  advise  me 
against  publishing;  it  is  a  thing  which  I  dread  as  much  as  death 
itself.  This  may  serve  as  an  example  of  the  figure  by  rhetoricians 
called  hyperbole,  but  privacy  &  quiet  are  my  delight.  No  doubt  you 
have  heard  of  the  munificence  of  the  Wedgwoods  towards  Coleridge. 
I  hope  the  fruit  will  be  good  as  the  seed  is  noble.  We  leave  Allfox- 
den  at  Midsummer.  The  house  is  let  to  Crewkshank  of  Stowey  so 
our  departure  is  decided.  What  may  be  our  destination  I  cannot  say. 
If  we  can  raize  the  money  we  shall  make  a  tour  on  foot.  Probably 
through  Wales  &  Northwards.     At  present  utterly  unable  to  say 

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where  we  shall  be.  We  have  no  particular  reason  to  be  attached  to 
the  neighbourhood  of  Stowey  but  the  society  of  Coleridge,  &  the 
friendship  of  Poole.  News  we  have  none,  our  occupations  continue 
the  same,  only  I  rise  early  in  the  mornings. 

I  have  written  1300  lines  of  a  poem  in  which  I  can  contrive  to  con- 
vey most  of  the  knowledge  of  which  I  am  possessed.  My  object  is 
to  give  pictures  of  nature,  man,  &  society.  Indeed  I  know  not  any 
thing  which  will  not  come  within  the  scope  of  my  plan.  If  ever  I  at- 
tempt another  drama,  it  shall  be  written  either  purposely  for  the 
closet  or  purposely  for  the  stage.  There  is  no  middle  way.  But  the 
work  of  composition  is  carved  out  for  me,  for  at  least  a  year  and 
a  half  to  come.  The  essays  of  which  I  have  spoken  to  you  must 
be  written  with  eloquence,  or  not  at  all.  My  eloquence,  speak- 
ing with  modesty,  will  all  be  carried  off,  or  at  least  for  some  time, 
into  my  poem.  If  you  could  collect  for  me  any  books  of  travels  you 
would  render  me  an  essential  service,  as  without  much  of  such  read- 
ing my  present  labours  cannot  be  brought  to  a  conclusion.  I  have 
not  yet  seen  the  life  of  Mrs.  Godwyn.  I  wish  to  see  it,  though  with 
no  tormenting  curiosity.  If  you  have  three  pounds,  eighteen  shil- 
lings to  spare  for  a  few  months  I  will  thank  you  to  call  at  No  6  little 
Ormond  street,  queen  square,  and  pay  the  bill  for  the  newspapers. 
The  bill  is  either  a  mistake  or  a  gross  imposition  but  there  is  no 
remedy.  Let  me  hear  from  you  soon.  If  you  can  employ  an  amanu- 
ensis it  would  be  better  as  we  find  it  difficult  to  read  your  letters. 

Basil  grows  a  stout  fellow  —  he  has  not  forgotten  you.  My  sister 
desires  to  be  kindly  remembered  to  you. 

Yours  sincerely   William  Wordsworth." 

In  both  instances  where  the  name  Tobin  is  written  the  original 
writing  has  been  erased. 


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Wordsworth,   William.     Autograph    Letter    to    Henry 
Reed  of  Philadelphia.     3  pages,  4to,  and  address. 

[London,  1837.] 

The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

'<  19th  August 
My  dear  Sir, 

Upon  returning  from  a  tour  of  several  months  upon  the  Continent 
I  find  two  letters  from  you  awaiting  my  arrival,  along  with  the  edi- 
tion of  my  Poems  which  you  have  done  me  the  honor  of  editing.  To 
begin  with  the  former  Letter,  April  25  1836.  It  gives  me  courage 
that  you  should  have  thought  it  necessary  (not  to  apologize  for  that 
you  have  not  done,  but)  to  explain  at  length  why  you  addressed  me 
in  the  language  of  affectionate  regard. — It  must  surely  be  gratifying 
to  one  whose  aim  as  an  Author  has  been  the  hearts  of  his  fellow 


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creatures  of  all  ranks  &  in  all  stations  to  find  that  he  has  succeeded  in 
any  quarter,  and  still  more  must  he  be  gratified  to  learn  that  he  has 
pleased  in  a  distant  country  men  of  simple  habits  and  cultivated 
taste,  who  are  at  the  same  time  widely  acquainted  with  literature. 

Your  second  Letter  accompanying  the  edition  of  the  Poems,  I  have 
read,  but  unluckily  have  it  not  before  me.  It  was  lent  to  Sargeant 
Talfourd  on  account  of  the  passage  in  it  that  alludes  to  the  possible 
&  desirable  establishment  of  english  copyright  in  America — I  shall 
now  hasten  to  notice  the  edit,  which  you  have  superintended  of  my 
poems.  This  I  can  do  with  much  pleasure,  as  the  Book  which  has 
been  shown  to  several  persons  of  taste,  Mr  Rogers  in  particular,  is 
allowed  to  be  far  the  handsomest  specimen  of  print  in  double  column 
which  they  have  seen.  Allow  me  to  thank  you  for  the  pains  you  have 
bestowed  upon  the  work.  Do  not  apprehend  that  any  differences  in 
our  several  arrangements  of  the  poems  can  be  of  much  importance ; 
you  appear  to  understand  me  far  too  well  for  that  to  be  possible.  I 
have  only  to  regret,  in  respect  to  this  volume,  that  it  should  have  been 
published  before  my  last  Edition  in  the  correction  of  which  I  took 
great  pains  as  my  last  labour  in  that  way,  and  which  moreover  con- 
tains several  additional  poems.  It  may  be  allowed  me  also  to  express 
a  hope  that  such  a  law  will  be  passed  erelong  by  the  American  Legis- 
lature, as  will  place  English  Authors  in  general  upon  a  better  footing 
in  America  than  at  present  they  have  obtained,  and  that  the  protec- 
tion of  Copyright  between  the  two  Countries  will  be  reciprocal.  The 
vast  circulation  of  English  works  in  America  offers  a  temptation  for 
hasty  and  incorrect  printing;  and  that  same  vast  circulation  without 
adding  to  the  price  of  each  copy  of  an  English  work  in  a  degree  that 
could  be  grudged  or  thought  injurious  by  any  purchaser,  would  allow 
in  America  remuneration  which  might  add  considerable  to  the  com- 
fort of  English  Authors  who  may  be  in  narrow  circumstances,  yet 
who  at  the  same  time  may  have  written  solely  from  honourable  mo- 
tives.—  Besides:  Justice  is  the  foundation  upon  which  both  law  and 
practice  ought  to  rest. — 

Having  many  Letters  to  write  on  returning  to  England  after  so  long 
an  absence  I  regret  that  I  must  be  so  brief  upon  the  present  occasion. 
I  cannot  conclude  however  without  assuring  you,  that  the  acknowl- 
edgements which  I  receive  from  the  vast  Continent  of  America  are 
among  the  most  grateful  that  reach  me.  What  a  vast  field  is  there 
open  to  the  English  Mind  acting  through  our  noble  Language.  Let 
us  hope  that  our  Authors  of  true  Genius  will  not  be  unconscious  of 
that  thought,  or  inattentive  to  that  duty  which  it  imposes  upon  them 
of  doing  their  utmost  to  cultivate  to  purify  &  to  elevate  their  Readers. 
That  such  may  be  my  own  endeavour  through  the  short  time  that  I 
shall  have  to  remain  in  this  world,  is  a  prayer  in  which  I  am  sure  you 
and  your  [two  words  illegible]  will  join  me.  Believe  me  gratefully 
Your  much  obliged  Friend 

W  Wordsworth" 


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The  items  here  entered,  with  two  exceptions 
which  are  noted,  were  acquired  too  late  for  inser- 
tion in  Mr.  Arnold's  Catalogue  of  American  First 
Editions.  Numbers  A3,  A4,  A5,  A6,  A7,  A8,  are 
not  Mr.  Arnold's  property.  Four  of  the  six  were 
not  in  his  first  editions  of  Lowell,  so  he  is  glad  to 
include  them  here.  "II  Pesceballo"  is  so  rare  that 
a  second  opportunity  to  obtain  a  copy  will  doubtless 
be  welcomed  by  many  collectors  of  Lowell's  books. 
The  "  Death  of  President  Garfield  "  is  in  paper  covers 
— the  copy  in  the  collection  was  in  cloth  covers. 


B£AI> 


AT    THE    OPENING 


OF 


THE  PENNSYLVANIA  HALL, 


ON 


The  IStli  of  Fifth  Month,  1838. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

TJUNTED    BT   MERBIUEW    X3rD  GUWW 

No.  7  Carter's  Alley. 


1838. 


See  Number  A 12. 


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Emerson 

Ai  The  Young  American.     8vo,  half  morocco,  gilt  top. 

London,  1844. 
First  Edition.    Fine  copy.    Exceedingly  rare. 

This  volume  is  from  the  library  of  Thomas  J.  McKee,  and  has  his 
book-plate. 


Longfellow 

A2  The  Estray:  A  Collection  of  Poems.     Edited  by  Longfellow. 
With  the  "  Proem"  by  Longfellow;  and  the  poems  "  Raphael,"  by 
Whittier;  "To  a  Pine  Tree,"  by  Lowell;  "The  Problem,"  by  Em- 
erson; and  "  The  Future  Life,"  by  Bryant.    1 2 mo,  original  boards, 
^  ^  paper  label,  uncut.  Boston,  1847. 

First  Edition.  Name  on  title-page.  Fine  copy,  with  the  2  pre- 
liminary leaves  of  advertisements  dated  January  i,  1847. 

When  the  books  in  Mr.  Arnold's  Collection  of  American  First  Edi- 
tions were  checked  by  the  auctioneers,  one  title  only  of  those  which 
had  been  listed  for  insertion  in  the  catalogue  was  missing — the 
catalogue  card  had  been  lost.  By  a  curious  coincidence  the  name  of 
the  book  is  "The  Estray,"  which,  at  last,  finds  a  place  here. 


Longfellow 

A3  Excelsior.  With  twelve  illustrations.  Square  1 2mo,  unbound 
and  unstitched.  New  York,  1872. 

First  separate  issue.     Very  scarce. 

In  the  catalogue  of  American  First  Editions  the  issue  of  1878  is 
erroneously  entered  as  the  first  separate  issue. 

Longfellow 

A4  The  Alarm  Bell  of  Atri.  A  poem,  by  Longfellow.  8vo, 
printed  on  three  pages  for  the  "Fair  for  Our  Dumb  Animals." 
8vo.  1875. 

Second  Edition.  This  leaflet  was  erroneously  catalogued  as  the 
issue  of  1 87 1.  The  purchaser  returned  it,  so  this  opportunity  is 
taken  to  re-enter  it  under  its  actual  date  of  issue. 

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Lowell 

A5  II  Pesceballo.  Opera  in  one  Atto.  Musica  del  Maestro  Ros- 
sibello-Donimazarti.     1 2mo,  original  paper  covers. 

Cambridge,  1892. 
First  Edition.     Privately  printed.     Fine  copy.    Very  rare. 

Lowell 

A6  How  I  Consulted  the  Oracle  of  the  Goldfishes.  Orig- 
inal galley-proof  of  the  first  9  stanzas  of  the  Poem,  with 
nimierous  manuscript  additions  and  corrections  in  Lowell's  hand- 
writing. [Cambridge,  1889.] 

Lowell 

A7  How  I  Consulted  the  Oracle  of  the  Goldfishes.  Orig- 
inal proof-sheets  of  the  whole  Poem  with  2  manuscript 
lines  in  Lowell's  handwriting.     8vo,  3  separate  leaves. 

[Cambridge,]  August,  1889. 

Lowell 

A8  Death   of  President   Garfield.     Meeting  of   Americans  in 
London,  at  Exeter  Hall,  24*  Sept.,  1881.    With  an  address  on 
Garfield  by  Lowell.     Portrait.     Square  1 2mo,  original  paper  cov- 
ers, gilt  top,  other  edges  uncut.  London,  1881. 
First  Edition.     Back  of  cover  broken,  but  otherwise  a  fine  copy. 

Lowell 

A9  Memoir  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  LL.D.    By  A.  Laurence 
Lowell.     8vo,  original  paper  covers,  uncut.         Cambridge,  1896. 
First  Edition. 

Lowell 

Alo  Addresses   delivered  at   the   Lowell   Commemoration. 

Held  in  the  Architektenhaus,  Berlin,  February  19,  1897.     8vo, 
original  paper  covers.  Berlin  [1897]. 

First  Edition. 

The  address  of  Professor  Grimm  is  printed  in  German;  the  ad- 
dresses of  Professors  Brandl  and  Hatfield  are  in  English.  Inserted 
is  one  of  the  original  engraved  cards  of  invitation  to  the  Commemo- 
ration. 

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Whittier 
All   American  Anecdotes :   Original  and  Select.   By  an  American. 
—      With  the  poem,  The  Spectre  Ship  of  Salem,  by  Whittier.     2  vol- 
umes, 1 2mo,  original  boards,  cloth  backs,  paper  labels,  uncut. 

Boston,  1830. 
First  Edition.     Very  scarce.     Fine  copy. 

Whittier 
A12  Address   Read   at   the  Opening  of  The   Pennsylvania 
Hall,  on  the  15th  of  Fifth  Month,  1838.     i2mo,  stitched. 

Philadelphia,  1838. 
First  Edition.     Fine  copy.     Rare. 
A  facsimile  of  the  title-page  is  the  frontispiece  to  this  Supplement. 


Whittier 
A13  At  Sundown.     i2mo,  original  cloth.  Cambridge,  1890. 

A  //  First  Edition.     One  of  a  few  copies  privately  printed  for  presenta- 

r  ^j'  tion  purposes,  and  preceding  the  published  edition  by  2  years. 

Bound  in  with  the  book,  as  issued,  is  a  small  slip  of  paper  on  which 
is  written,  "From  John  G.  Whittier,"  in  the  Poet's  handwriting. 

This  copy  formerly  belonged  to  Charles  B.  Foote,   and  has  his 
book-plate. 

Whittier 

A14  Whittier    as   a   Politician.      Illustrated  by   his   Letters   to 

/^,  Professor  Elizur  Wright,  Jr.     Now  first  published.     Edited,  with 

Explanatory  Text,  by  Samuel  T.  Pickard.    Portrait.    8vo,  original 

boards,  paper  label,  uncut.  Boston,  1900. 

First  Edition. 

Inserted  is  an  autograph  letter  of  i  ^  pages,  with  address 
"  Hon  Robt  C.  Winthrop 

Marlborough  street 

Boston 
Mass" 
The  letter  is  given  below  in  full. 

"Danvers  i^t  mo  7  1881 
My  Dear  Friend 

I  hasten  to  thank  thee  for  thy  letter,  &  for  the  generous  aid  to  the 
Florida  Church,  which  thee  &  Mi^^  w_  have  given.  God  bless  you  for  it. 
I  have  read  thy  eloquent  Memoir  of  Henry  Clay  —  a  man  whom  I 
have  always  greatly  admired.  There  is  little,  if  anything  in  [thy] 
estimate  of  the  great  statesman,  that  I  cannot  endorse.  It  was  at  my 
suggestion  that  he  offered  to  use  his  influence  for  the  liberation  of 
Garrison  from  the  Baltimore  jail. 

With  sincere  respect  and  esteem  I  am  thy  friend 

John  G.  Whittier." 

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New- York,  in  March,  1901. 

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